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Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of the gains of his place to be made yeoman of the pit coal, and when this complainant had entered into such a covenant then he was sworn yeoman of the pit coal. Sir Simon Harvey delivers the covenant whereby it …
8th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… a new light set up to which men voluntarily give more. The coal ships make a voyage more in a year than they did before. …
9th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… were not thought needful, as for Cambridge and the salt pits in Worcestershire. He concluded with the direction of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… lodging houses, shops, a milk factory, a gas works, and coal yards. By the 1870s the community supported a herbalist, … month including milk, butter, cheese, fruit, rabbits, coal, and beer. By 1900 some 200 trains a day used the spur … a stock of over £134 before 1891 to supply the poor with coal. In 1910 all the land had been sold and converted to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… prospects: from one eminence eleven counties may be seen. Coal of good quality is wrought, and there are large quarries … comprises by measurement 1067 acres. There are some gravel-pits, which afford good materials for repairing the roads; … clay: there are quarries of sandstone and limestone, and coal exists. Abberton Hall, the manor-house, the seat of Mr. …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… seamen: they are chiefly employed in the importation of coal and culm, and two of them trade regularly with Bristol. … tramroads, formed in connexion with some lime and coal works in the hamlet. These works, together with the … of St. Nicholas, near Cardiff. The parish abounds with coal and iron-ore, the working of which, though it has …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… The substratum is generally carboniferous limestone, and coal interspersed with trap; the limestone is quarried for … are extensive lime-works in the village of Chapel, but the coal, from the immediate vicinity of long-established mines, … clay of good quality is found in the neighbourhood. Coal-gas works have been established for lighting the towns …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Clee 32 linked the squatter cottages and limekilns to the coal pits across the parish boundary. 33 In 1991 metalled roads … who sublet parts. 50 They were fuelled with Brown Clee coal. 51 Before the mid 19th century a scattering of kilns …