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Journal of the House of Lords
… I have been Nine Voyages as an Officer in the Company's Service, and Five as a Commander. You have been Fourteen … an Officer, and Four in command of the Waterloo, a Company's Ship of 1,325 Tons. Did you rise to the Command of a Ship … Midshipmen; I do not think they are necessary; but it is a Nursery for young Officers. How many Officers have you …
Journal of the House of Lords
… with Tippoo, in that Year, 1784, during Lord Macartney's Government, the whole of the Revenue of the Jaghire was … also decreased in 1816. And, as far as regards the Company's Territories, those are the principal Alterations I at … with the Collectors and the Government. Failure. 1795 Nursery for Trees and Bamboos on an extensive Scale, by the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… turned the Matter in my Mind, and replied to his Lordship's Letter; and I am in the Direction of your Lordships, … to Italian Silk. It is a Letter from One of the Company's Agents in the East Indies upon this very Subject, written … considering the present Mode of conducting the Company's Silk Investment in the Aurungs as having materially …
Journal of the House of Lords
… to England in 1801, and whilst I was in England a Company's Servant was appointed to the Situation, and I was displaced. You not having been a Company's Servant? No; the Assistants to the Salt Agencies throughout … Expence of the Manufacture; the Building, ( id est,) the Brick and Mortar, is a very small Proportion. What was the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… monuments are normally described in the order N. to S. and E. to W.; the plans are generally to a scale of 24 ft. … roofs. In outlying parts there are several 18th-century brick farmhouses and some 19th-century buildings in brick and cob. Neither the heathland part of the parish, S. …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… the court that the prior and convent of St. Bartholomew's had been under obligation to find a chaplain to sing mass daily in the chapel of Gray's Inn for the students and fellows at a salary of 7 13 s. 4 … from the roof of the south transept, it is probable that a brick wall was also required to separate the south transept …
Old and New London
… soap-manufacturing works, and smoke-belching potteries and brick-kilns. At the broken doors of multilated houses … Old St. Pancras Church, and also through that of St. Giles's parish which adjoins it, without any unavoidable … of Sir Gilbert Scott, and is constructed chiefly of red brick, with dressings of Bath stone, in the most ornate style …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… sand and gravel. The following estimate, taken from 'Foot's View of the Agriculture of Middlesex,' reported to the … and at Hackney there is some strong loam-like clay, called brick-earth. ( c) Islington, Pancras, Paddington. The soil is … a few woods and parks, consists of meadows, pasture, and nursery-gardens. The latter are situated on the left bank of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… writing of the area around Salisbury in the early 1790's, records much open field mixed with recent inclosure. 4 … dairying, and in sheep, a tendency that bears out Davis's complaints. 20 Some increase in turnip, potato, and … 1851, Knook 1871). General agricultural depression (Bishop's Cannings 1851), scarcity of agricultural employment …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… monuments in Buckinghamshire Akeley 105. AKELEY. (O.S. 6 in. xiii. N.E.) Ecclesiastical (1). Parish Church of St. … built c. 1600. The walls generally are timber-framed, with brick filling, apparently not original. Some of the roofs are … has diagonal braces; all the filling is of modern brick. The roof is covered with slate. ConditionGood, much …