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Survey of London
… Duke of York in his closet], and with much difficulty, by candle-light, walked over the Matted Gallery, as it is now …
Survey of London
… (as said) by the carelesnesse of a maid in burning of a candle from a bunch of candles, and leaving the others …
Old and New London
… more by it, and could by degrees endure the light of the candle." The Bourbon kings of France were supposed to possess … circumstantial Northouck, "to save the labour of cutting a candle from a pound, burnt it off, and threw the rest …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… (which the mine was subject to) from the flame of a naked candle which was un-prudently being used instead of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Lammas land in Fodder fen. Its grazing was usually let by candle auction in the 1830s, when the combined rents, then £4 …
William and Mary, 1690: All Act for Paveing and Cleansing the Streets in the Cityes of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out-Parishes in the County of Midlesex and in the Burrough of Southwarke and other places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surrey and for Regulating the Markets therein mentioned. [Chapter VIII. Rot. Parl. pt. 3. nu. 7.]
Statutes of the Realm
William and Mary, 1690: An Act, for granting to their Majesties certaine Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks and severall other Goods and Merchandize to be imported after the five and twentyeth day of December one thousand six hundred and ninety. [Chapter IV. Rot. Parl. pt. 3. nu. 3.]
Statutes of the Realm