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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Market Ct, Bow St, London, upholder (1706). [GL, Hand in Hand MS vol. 4, ref. 11781] Abbey, Harry C., North St, … November 1834 suffered a fire at his cabinet warehouse in New St, Chelmsford. [D; Times, 25 November 1834; Oxford RO, … label states that he was able to supply Gentlemen of the Army and Navy with Beds, Mattresses & Bedding. Also traded as …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… the majority. We regret that, as the result of an inquiry in every stage of which all Your Majesty's Commissioners have … to the court and to office, which is always taken by a new member of a court. 30 Members of the courts are the … a member of the Ironmongers' Company and their agent in Ireland, sold his estate in England for 2,000 l. and spent it …
Two London Chronicles from the Collections of John Stow
… ship named the menyon did take a grete spaynysh shyp in the naro sease mannyd weth scott & halff ladyn w th costly … Poulis crosse. Doctor Langriche, 3 archdeacon of Clefland in Yorkeshire, did willfully lepe out of the cloyster of … mayor. The occasion whervppon the qwene did send to New hauyn was the lorde Vidame, capitayne of New hauyn, & the …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… of his Highness's person. The common enemy having failed in all their former plots and conspiracies, for the ruin of … been a quarter-master under Sir John Reynolds, 2 in the army, and was about two years ago cashiered by General Monk, … who had formerly been an acquaintance of Sindercomb in the army, and they gave him ten pounds in money at first to …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… 1632 Counterfeiting of seals October 12 1632. A DECREE In the STAR-CHAMBER, About Counterfeiting of Seals to … about a year: he saith that one Thomas Downs who is in Ireland, as he hath heard, did deliver them unto him at his … many Inconveniencies; and they can foresee that if this new falsity should be unpunished, it will grow further …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… A decree concerning soap-boilers, 1633 A Decree in Star-Chamber concerning the Soap-boylers, in pursuance of a Censure of that Court upon May 10. 1633. 9 … of their own former Abuses, and the prospering of this new Manufacture, which will be so profitable for the Publick; …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… some particular Terms and obsolete Words which occur in the foregoing Account of Yarmouth. Anchorage. A duty levied on ships, for liberty to anchor in any port. Combat. ( French) In the old laws of this …
A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4
Covers the areas around the northern edge of the county, from Thorngate and Andover hundreds on the western border with Dorset, around to Odiam and Crundall hundreds in the north-east of the county. It includes accounts of the towns of Andover, Aldershot and Basingstoke. It also describes the hundred of the New Forest in the south-west of the county.
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12, Wootton Hundred (South) Including Woodstock
The Victoria County History's account of the Borough of New Woodstock
A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3, Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) Including Crawley New Town
Gives the history of the eleven parishes that form the north-eastern part of Bramber rape, from Upper Beeding in the south to Ifield in the north, together with that of Crawley new town, founded in 1947.