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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… It formerly carried on a very extensive trade in pilchards. The principal business at present is the shipping …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… smelts, 14 d.; 3 plaice, 2 s.; 6 mullets, 4 s.;9th Sept., pilchards, 8 d.24th Sept., 12 plovers, 4 s.29th, bread, 2 s. …
Historical Collections:
… A Patent toTo have One Shilling upon ever Hogshead of Pilchards. A Patent toTo have the Benefit of Forfeiture by …
Magna Britannia
… not on so extensive a scale: there are also about 300,000 pilchards taken annually, on an average, by drift-net boats … There was formerly a pilchard-fishery at Teignmouth. Pilchards taken on the Cornish coast are cured at Plymouth, … (from Cornwall), manganese, marble, granite, lime, &c. pilchards Corn, coals, &c. &c. Salcombe Corn, cyder, &c. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… of Plymouth against certain merchants, forestallers of pilchards, by storing them in cellars built in the cliffs. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… Sir Fr. Drake and Sir John Hawkyns touching the saving of pilchards in cellars at Causandbay near Plymouth, and in the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… for settling the controversy relative to the fishing of pilchards in Devon and Cornwall: together with certain notes … added to the Council's order for regulating the fishing of pilchards. Dec. 1. 3. Petition of the town of Plymouth in … to the order of Council for regulating the fishing of pilchards. Dec. 1. 4. Estimate by Sir Wm. Wynter of such …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… the contributions of the country, and by the imposition on pilchards, and how the further sums required may be raised …