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The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… happen to be of dangerous Consequence to the Merchant's Credit. 'The honourable Gentleman talk'd of making London a … Question that can come before this House: Is not every Man's House looked on as his Asylum? Is then the giving a Power to any little paltry Exciseman, to enter People's Houses at all Times of the Day and Night, no Encroachment …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… A latinized version GOLD LEAF found among an apothecary's stock [Inventories (1730)]. The Latin indicates its … and caused a set of metal teeth to snap round the creature's leg. OED earliest date of use:1605, though possibly not in …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… Bamme for a term of forty years, at an annual rent of 33 s. 4 d. Dated 6 Aug., 6 Henry VI. [A.D. 1428]. 10 Oct., 5 … the Chamberlain, to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's of Sir William Bovetone, chaplain, for admission to the … chantry founded at the altar of the Apostles in St. Paul's Church for the soul of Sir Henry de Guldeford called "le …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… There is little direct documentary evidence of Dean's mining industry before the mid 13th century. The rich … century. 82 Coal was being dug in several of the Forest's bailiwicks in the mid 1240s 83 but its extraction was of … mined by short drifts or levels and by small pits. 92 Dean's miners with their expertise in excavating and burrowing …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… of Admiral, Lord High, see James, Duke of York. Admiral's regiment Admirals, see also Holland, admirals of. Rear see … Advices (1666) (1667) see also Newsletters. Advocate, King's (Sir R. Wiseman) Ady, Capt. Hen. letter of sop's Fables, … Antwerp letters dated from persons in persons to or from Anvill, resident at Apparitions seen in London Appleby …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… John Dominick Antonyssen, Cornelia Antrim, Marquis of Anvill, Mrs. Appleback, Henry Appletree, John Apsley, Arthur … discipline of pay, memorandum as to regiments in, Argyll's, Earl of Arran's, Earl of Atkin's, Sir Richard Beaumont's, Colonel John …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, Addenda
… from Abergavenny, Lord, see Nevill. Abraham, of the Queen's stable Acklington Park, co. Northumberland Acliff near … of want of Armstrong, Anth. Edw. Jock, alias the Laird's Jock Matthew Sym Armstrongs, the Army, the see also … of husband of Attainder, Act of Attorney-General or Queen's attorney see also Gerard, Sir Gilbert. for York, see …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… copperis; greene copperas; greene cop'is; green copp's; green coppris; green copperis; green copparas; green … able to distinguish them. For example, pyrites, or fool's gold, and marcasite, or coal brasses, are both forms of …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… Guibon Goddard's Journal November 1656 November 1656 Monday, Nov. 3. Colonel … murder, being servants to the late Portuguese Ambassador's brother, who was executed for the said murder; 1 it not … that the custom of Spanish wines be raised from 4 l. 10 s. to 6 l. the ton; the excise from 6 l. to 9 l. the ton. …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… Henry VIII December 1514 December 1514 27 Dec. S.P. Hen. VIII., 230, f. 319. R.O. 3578. THE GUARD. Bill of … of the Guard from Calais to Paris and back, 20 days at 4 s. a day; total, 16 l. Signed. Subscribed with receipt by Richard Grey, clk., on Guldeford's behalf, from Sir John Daunce, 27 Dec. 6 Hen. VIII. P. 1. 27 …