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Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… XIV. p. 167. Treasury warrant to same. To allow Captain Ash, of the Customs sloop stationed between Exeter and the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… date of use: 1535 Sources: Acts, Houghton, Patents. Weed ash OED has two entries, which almost certainly refer to the … ashes. Under the former, the meaning is given as '? soda-ash (which is made from sea-weed)'. David Ramsay, discussing … derived from inland plants richer in potassium like WOOD ASH and FERN ASH. Early writers were less clear about the …