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Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… county, as it were, at one point of view, dropping here and there new matter, various in its complection and degree of worth. Nottinghamshire than, at one view, contains fertil plains embellished with variety and beauty; abounding with wood, and water, hill and dale, …
The medieval records of a London City church
… description is as follows: "In the Nave of All Hallows Barking, is the Brass of Andrew Evyngar, 1535, it is a … the slab has been destroyed, together with the sentence, and also the evangelistic symbols, of which traces may be … Brass consists of the figures of Evyngar, his wife, son, and daughters, standing under a canopy of pointed arches …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Commons on the Affairs of the East India Company in 1812, and communicated to the House of Lords in 1830.) PREFACE … The numerous Oriental Terms occurring in the Fifth Report, and its Appendix, have been adopted from most of the … Sanskrit, Hindustany, Bengaly, Telinga, Tamul, Canara, and Malabar; and a few from Turkish and Malay. In spelling …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Chair. [617] Hollingworth Magniac Esquire is called in, and examined as follows: You were an Agent at Canton, were … To any Extent? To a considerable Extent in Opium, and also in Goods to England latterly. Who were your … there was a little Business going on in Prussian Blue, and a few Manufactures of that kind from England; but of late …
Journal of the House of Lords
… the Chair. Walter Stevenson Davidson Esquire is called in, and further examined as follows: Do you think the Existence … in the habit of resorting to their Treasury every Season; and when it happened that they declined to draw either on India or on England, my Constituents and myself were deeply disappointed. Does not that Difficulty …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… pure white variety of the latter used for vases, ornaments and busts. It appears also to have been used for other … since this practice was prohibited in 1711 [Acts (1711)], and again two years later [Acts (1731)]. The repetition … Houghton found that alabaster along with white rock MARBLE and lime calcinated flints were used to help the fermentation …
Old and New London
… Aldersgate Street and St Martin-le-Grand CHAPTER XXVII. ALDERSGATE STREET AND ST. MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. Origin of the NameHistory of the … as at Bow, St. Giles's, Cripplegate, and Allhallow's, Barking, to warn citizens to keep within doors. Strype also …
A Dictionary of London
… in Gracioustreete Aldgate Ward School Between Duke Street and Mitre Street, east of St. James' Church, with a passage … Hallows ad Fenum See All Hallows the Great. All Hallows Barking On the north side of Great Tower Street at the … Hallows de Berkyng," 1433 (Ct. H.W. II.467). " All Souls Barking," 1502 (Lond. I. p.m. I.48). A chapel called " …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… have been less need to import foreign sugar products, and the English term 'sugar candy' became more common … coming from the region of Alicante, hence Alicant SOAP and ALICANT RAISINS. OED earliest date of use: c1500 Simone … for a saline substance obtained by separating the soluble and useful component from the insoluble solids in the …
A History of the County of Suffolk
… the prior of 'Gretingge' (under the abbot of Grestein) in Barking, Essex. This priory at the same time had 7 s. 1 d. in … of Creeting St. Olave produced 9 0 s. 5 d. 2 The goods and stock pertaining to the priory of Creeting St. Olave were … de Lymbergh, a merchant; but in 1360 permitted the abbot and convent of Grestein to sell it to Sir Edmund de la Pole. …