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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… browne parchment] Probably a careless and shortened way of writing BLACK - PARCHMENT LACE. All examples noted in the Dictionary Archive have been listed among other items of HABERDASHERY, and most of them were listed among the … CONGOU TEA, PEKOE TEA and SOUCHONG TEA were all defined by Statute as black teas [Acts (1767)]. Although in the early …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Michael) BLACKAUTON ( St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Kingsbridge, hundred of Coleridge, Stanborough and Coleridge, and S. divisions of … College, a noble institution for the support of decayed merchants, was founded in 1695, by Sir John Morden, Bart., an …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Blackford BLACKFORD Blackford in 1839 The ancient parish of Blackford is a detached part of Whitley hundred but borders both Charlton Horethorne and … In 1838 it comprised 566 a. 2 In 1885 a detached part of North Cadbury known as Brice fields (no population, no …
Old and New London
… on the Thames' BankThe Black ParliamentThe Trial of Katherine of ArragonShakespeare a Blackfriars Manager The Blackfriars … the swindlers on the wrong scent. At a public meeting of merchants, bankers, and others held in the Egyptian Hall, …
Old and New London
… ROAD.THE SURREY THEATRE, SURREY CHAPEL, &c. Formation of Blackfriars RoadThe Surrey Theatre, originally the "Royal … in 1805The Amphitheatre rebuilt, and under the Management of EllistonThe Manager in a FixThe Theatre burnt down in … subsequently been declared informal, as coming under the Statute of Mortmain, the bequest reverted to Hackney College, …
Old and New London
… And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent." Macaulay's Ballad of " The Armada." Situation and … aldermen, and citizens of London, with all the foreign merchants resident in the City, and escorted in grand state … II., for the enlarging the highway, according to the statute made in the time of King Edward I., so that they …
Survey of London
… Green and Wigram Years, c181943 After 1815 the fortunes of English shipbuilding improved and Blackwall Yard prospered again. Not only did the building and repairing of East Indiamen return to the yard after the European peace … is now the largest establishment anywhere for repairing merchants shipping, and in time of war has been extremely …
Survey of London
… Blackwall Yard in 1987, it brought to an end a tradition of shipbuilding and shiprepairing on this site which had begun over 350 years before with the laying-out of a shipyard here in the second decade of the seventeenth … of Blackwall Yard The 'Governor and Company of London Merchants trading into the East Indies' were first granted a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Blackwater BLACKWATER, a large village, in the parish of Yately, hundred of Crondall, Odiham and N. divisions of … name in the reign of Edward III., in the 31st of which a statute was passed for the regulation of the fish trade, … to a large extent, and attracted a great number of German merchants, several of whom fixed their residence in the town. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bladon Local government Local goverment In 1279 John of London, who held Bladon manor at farm for life, had a three-weekly court and the view of frankpledge at Bladon, to which neither the sheriff nor … repairing the butts or practising shooting, as required by statute. 36 Eighteenth- and 19th-century courts dealt only …