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The Spanish Company
… most honourable privy council, to be considered of in the treaty of amity between our king's most excellent … king of Spain or his subjects for any offences committed in the late queen's day or before the signing of the treaty. … That the king's subjects may be free to enter and trade in any port or haven in the dominions of the king of Spain, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… resinous GUM, with a strong onion-like smell, procured in central Asia from Narthex asafoetida and other allied umbelliferous plants. It was used in medicine as an antispasmodic and as a flavouring. It was included in the Materia Medica, which offers no English alternative to …
A History of the County of Northampton
… Ashton, which like its neighbour Hartwell was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Roade, occupied about 1,200 acres 40 … and on the south-west from Stoke Bruerne by a tributary. In the north-east the township was bounded by part of Salcey … half of the township is covered by Boulder Clay but in the south patches of Oolitic Limestone and areas of Upper …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… the Achaemenids: exchange, transmission and transformation in the visual culture of Babylonia, Iran and Bactria, … on the introduction and development of modern science in China. Conroy, R.J. M.Sc., Cambridge. Books, reading and knowledge in Ming China. Dai, Lianbin D.Phil., Oxford. (Or. Stud.). …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… Aston 10. ASTON. (O.S. 6 in. xxi. N.W.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. Mary … and Nave are of c. 1230, the West Tower was added late in the 14th or early in the 15th century, and towards the end of the 15th century …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Astrop - Auckland, Bishop Astrop ASTROP, a hamlet, in the parishes of King's Sutton and Newbottle, hundred of … Here is a mineral spring called St. Rumbald's well, which, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, was much frequented. Astwell ASTWELL, a hamlet, partly in the parish of Syresham, but chiefly in the parish of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… augar; algare; agers] A carpenter's TOOL for boring holes in wood, etc., having a long pointed shank with a cutting … Randle Holme's description of it shows both the variation in size and scope, and the sheer effort required to work it … them from a quarter of an Inch Bore, to 4, 5, or 6 inches in the Diameter, but big or little, their form and make is …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… Weekly Assessments. The Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament being fully satisfied and resolved in their Consciences, that they have lawfully taken up Arms, … Ordain, and be it ordained by the said Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, That for the intents …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… Lead.; Excize on Silver and Gold. For the better putting in execution and explanation of an Ordinance of Parliament dated the 24. of November, in the yeer 1645. for an Additional Excize or New-Impost for … Declared and Ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That twenty hundred weight shall be accompted …
A History of the County of London
… ALDGATE The priory of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, was founded in 1107 or 1108 1 by Maud, queen of Henry I, 2 on a spot once occupied by a church in honour of Holy Cross and St. Mary Magdalene. The abbey of … the lands bequeathed to them, or to allow her to be buried in their church. 8 Whether this was so or not, Henry showed …