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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… According to Kerridge, this dye was invented in 1640. COCHINEAL was worked in PEWTER vats or kettles in a mixture …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… A beautiful RED or crimson PIGMENT or LAKE obtained from COCHINEAL, used as a WATER COLOUR (and less often as an OIL … term began to be used occasionally for the LAKE made from cochineal in the second half of the seventeenth century, but … by Harley, about 50,000 of the tiny insects from which cochineal was extracted weighed two pounds, while 70,000 were …
Calendar, Committee for the Advance of Money
… Clare, lately struck at Southampton, laden with plate and cochineal, out of which the State had large sumshe be …
Calendar, Committee for the Advance of Money
… or p. Note that the Spanish merchants, pretenders to the cochineal, silver, ginger, hides, and other goods brought in … report from the Committee for Advance of Money, that the cochineal deposited in Sir John Nulls' hands be forthwith … of the business set forth. That the pretenders to the cochineal and other goods be left to their trial-at-law. That …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… a yard. At another time it could be had for 20 s., but now cochineal is very dear. Asks instructions. Will see about the …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… pretending they use but their former rich stuff as grain, cochineal, and such like, and so urge men to give the greater …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… at 9 in the morning. Endorsed :1597. Seal. 1 p. 30. 47.) Cochineal and Indigo. 1597/8, Feb. 4. Warrant to Lord Burghley for the restraint of the importation of cochineal and indigo into the port of London for two years …