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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Zaffre Also known as saffer and saffre, this processed BLUE mineral, that is roasted COBALT ore, or impure cobalt … ingredient in the glass-like SMALT giving it a fine blue colour. It was also used in enamelling and in PORCELAIN. …
Alumni Oxonienses
… at Reading 1 Aug., 1669, admitted to Merchant Taylors' school 1681; lecturer of St. Gregory, and St. Mary Magdalen, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Thomas Becket. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, is now a school-house. Zeals ZEALS, a tything, in the parish, union, …
Survey of London
… of interest because it was from the beginning used as a school and it is the earliest nonconformist school in London for which any detailed information is available. Three books of accounts for the school, for the period 1687 to 1745, are preserved at …
A History of the County of Somerset
… palustris, Linn. A common resident, but rather local. 35. Blue Tit. Parus cruleus, Linn. A common resident. 36. … more commonly around Frome and in the extreme west. 42. Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail. Motacilla flava, Linn. An … and also at the same time and place specimens in a brown coat as in summer. Nearly white specimens also occur during …
A History of the County of Somerset
… original ' Bath-white' ( Pieris daplidice) and the Large Blue ( Lycna arion), were found in the county so long ago as … captured British specimens of this pretty little 'tailed blue. Two were taken in Dorset by the Rev. O. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… is a small village on the borders of Exmoor. Those from Blue Anchor and Leigh Woods were collected by Mr. R. I. Pocock. Blue Anchor is a small village lying between Watchet and … forficatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, p. 638 (1758). Blue Anchor, Winsford, Leigh Woods. The common large brown …