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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was to be wrapped in several layers of BROWN PAPER if SEA COAL was to be used and hung in the chimney to dry in a … an interesting addition to the evidence of the spread of coal for domestic purposes [Cox (2000a)]. OED earliest date …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rector John Pinnell, left £200 for a bread and coal charity. After prolonged litigation the charity, in … Cokethorpe House in 1892 her relatives provided a memorial fund of £60 to ensure continuation of her regular charitable … which from 1873 or earlier had been £5 a year used for coal. In the 1960s the fund was yielding £5 a year. 39 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is remarkable for the variety and extent of its mines of coal and ironstone, lying on each side of a ridge of basaltic … rock and limestone. Between the different veins of coal are found immense beds of ironstone; and the produce of … charity is also a school of industry for 120 females. A fund of 63. 18., arising from a bequest of John Tandy and …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… 359 bushels, and wheaten flour 231 sacks. The quantity of coal imported at Dunbar and its several creeks during the same year was 9490 tons of Scotch coal, of English 763 tons, and of English cinders 31 tons; … and large quantities of lime are sent to Berwickshire. Coal is found, but not at present in seams of sufficient …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… addition to several minor benefactions, receive yearly in coal the proceeds of 33 acres of land, awarded at the … among widows of the parish, and a small sum is given in coal to the poor. Dunkerton (All Saints) DUNKERTON ( All … views, and the lower parts are watered by a small brook. Coal is found, and there are some mines in operation. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… thriving state. The principal substrata are freestone and coal. The freestone is quarried at Craiksland and Collennan: … sawing it into slabs has been erected at the quarry. The coal is wrought for the supply of the neighbourhood, and for … by subscription, aided by grants from the Church Extension fund; they are under the charge of missionaries, who receive …