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A History of the County of Somerset
… pottery and coins are thought to have been part of a salt-making industry. 1 Woolavington village forms a grid at the … a year c. 1594 and in 1605 there was neither a communion cloth nor a pewter pot. 12 In 1612 fives was played in the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… background a standing figure (the head missing) apparently making a discourse, perhaps this represents the Disputation …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the Grand Junction canal passes through the parish. Lace-making employs some of the inhabitants. The living is a … about 600 acres. The inhabitants are partly employed in making lace. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in … and a powerful hydraulic press has been introduced for making leaden bullets by pressure, instead of casting them as …
The Environs of London
… two mast-ponds 52; a smith's shop, with several forges for making anchors; a mouldloft; storehouses of various kinds; … 400 yards in length, under the direction of a clerk, for making cables of all dimensions for the Navy. The great ship … warren is a foundery for brass canon; a laboratory 56 for making fireworks for the use of the Army and Navy; and a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… built and of mean appearance. The manufacture of broad-cloth, which was formerly carried on, has entirely ceased, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… In 1455-6 it ordered the repair of tenements and the making of hedges, in 1575 the inheritance customs of the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… near the margin of the Severn. The manufacture of broad-cloth prevailed here to a very great extent in the reign of … sediment is in some places a pure clay, adapted to the making of bricks, but is generally a rich mould. Valuable … in 1468, became a cell to the monastery of Pentney. On making some excavations at the Priory farm, various relics of …