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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Mercury, 30 September 1817, stating that Zannetti's Repository of Art at 94 Market St had been established for … as Vincente Vittore Zanetti at 98 Market St Lane, and later at no. 87. Advertisement, headed Repository of Arts is … [GL, Sun MS vol. 576(?), ref. 1335] Zuraghi, Felix, 9 City Rd, London, looking-glass, barometer and thermometer maker …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Archive do not suggest it was commonly used this way. OED earliest date of use: 1475 Found as an ingredient in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… roads. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at 17. 8. 9., and in the gift of Mr. Tombs: the … union of Oakhampton, hundred of Wonford, Crockernwell and S. divisions of Devon, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Oakhampton. … valued in the king's books at 5. 5. 0.; patron, the Bishop of Exeter; impropriator, George John, Esq. The …
Survey of London
… house in Gravel Lane on ground held by lease from the Bishop of Winchester. At that time Gravel Lane extended … The street is marked on the 1745 edition of Rocque's map. Wilkinson refers 179 to the chapel as John Bunyan's … of that period with central gulley, and with little in the way of lighting or other amenities (Plate 64a). The whole of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… source whence the present account has been compiled. Day's great work on the British fishes contains but rare … record in his Revised List printed some twenty-four years later. I have however frequently noticed this bird in various … been found. From time to time a stray sea-bird made its way to the spot, and the white-tailed sea-eagle no doubt …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Vertigo substriata is a mistaken identification of Miller's record of Turbo sexdentatus which is Vertigo antivertigo, … entering the docks, or passing close by on their way to Bristol, etc., it is quite possible these beautiful … of Lepidoptera occurring in the neighbourhood of Taunton) Later Mr. Bidgood wrote: 'About the year 1864 Mr. Woodland …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the body. 4. Pisaura mirabilis (Clerck). Bristol (F. P. S.). Very common; adult in June and July. Known also as … (R. I. P.). 7. Pardosa amentata (Clerck). Bristol (F. P. S.). AGELENID Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two … lobster, Astacus gammarus (Linn.), may sometimes make its way up the Channel from Lundy Island, and it is highly …