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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… 36. Wm. Baber, gunpowder maker. For the place of Checker of Customs at Bristol, void by decease of Rich. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… our charter and according to your advice I called a checker immediately, where the majority of the house met, who …
A Dictionary of London
… indicated. Perhaps it opened into St. Paul's Churchyard. Checker (The) A tenement so called within the precinct of … St. Leonard, Foster Lane (L. and P. H. VIII. XVI. p. 243). Checker (The) A messuage called "the Checker" in parish of St. Peter le Poore, belonging to …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Checker - Chypre Checker [checard; ceckar] A TEXTILE term found both as a … with CHECK. However, it may be that the one, probably checker, defined a pattern like a chess board using only two … examples all fit the definition for that fabric. Checker was not uncommon before 1700 but thereafter becomes …
A Dictionary of London
… I. ii. 108-Boyle, 1799). In Old Bethlem. First mention : "Checker Alley," 1559-60 (Ct. H.W. II. 674). Named after a …
A History of the County of Sussex
… modern except the north respond and perhaps the diagonal checker work in the tympanum, which appears to be of old …
A History of the County of Sussex
… orders. The tympanum is filled with a diagonal checker of grey or yellow and red stones: those in the south …
A History of the County of Sussex
… the easternmost modern bays, where the north has diagonal checker work and the south scale-ornament. The second, third …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… of roofs of several periods: indications of the feretrar's checker built about 1425 29 Some work had been done in 1357-8 … 15 and by the feretrar's account 16 for building his checker which is described as 'opposite hostii feretri S. … by robbers in 1386. 23 Opposite to it was the feretrar's checker, described below. ELY CATHEDRAL, SHERINE OF ST. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… to the south of the infirmary was the chamberlain's checker, of which building only two fragments remain, …