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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… invited the Council to his house to discuss a bowl of arrack punch, and endeavoured to pledge them to peace and …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the first for importing a great quantity of East India arrack, and selling it publickly, the other for importing … will admit of no dispute, because she publickly sold the arrack she had brought in and got on board, out of some ship …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… which by an Act lately passed in the Assembly of Jamaica, arrack and other spirits are chargeable on importation there, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (early), Inventories (mid-period), Newspapers, Patents. Arrack [arrac; arak] An alcoholic drink first distilled in … Britain. In one recipe for what was called 'East-India Arrack' it was used to make up a PUNCH-like beverage with … Company, musty Found in units of GALLON See also BATAVIA ARRACK. Sources: Acts, Diaries, Inventories (late), Rates, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Batavia arrack - Bays Batavia arrack A type of ARRACK popular during the middle decades of the eighteenth …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and widely exported, it was also originally used to make ARRACK and SURFEIT WATER. Contemporary medical commentators …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1767)]. OED earliest date of use: 1576 Found describing ARRACK, BENGAL, BEZOAR, CABINET, CORDIVANT, COTTON, COTTON … AMBER, AMBERGRIS, ANIME, ARANGO, ARGENT SUBLIME, ARRACK, ARTIFICIAL BALSAM, ASAFOETIDA, BDELLIUM, BENJAMIN, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan
… strange exactions of the Dutch. They exact excise for the arrack our people drink, and they may not "kill a wild hog, … Japara the eastward-bound ships are provided with rice, arrack, and boards, though "not without extraordinary charge …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan
… since agreed to allow 9 d. per day, and a proportion of arrack at night, and to the carpenter, besides double allowance, a quart of arrack to every five. [ Signed as above.] Certificate from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, East Indies, China and Japan
… sent; the casks so slight and thin that half the arrack and butter leaks out before it arrives. The cordage is …