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A History of the County of Berkshire
… with the king's image of silver-gilt or, at the least, copper and gilt. The tomb seems never to have been set up, … series down to to-day. 39 The oldest plates are of copper, silvered or gilded, with the arms, &c., in enamel, … the belfry had affixed to it a handsome clock case with a copper dial, dated 1756, containing a clock bought of John …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… The effigy on his tomb was to be of silver or at least copper gilded, and places for twelve persons to sit or kneel … in 1680 at the cost of Tobias Rustat, the statue being of copper on a pedestal of white marble carved by Grinling …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a few years since, when a spire of wood, covered with copper, was added to the tower: in the Grenville chapel, or …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… egg. It was used in particular to describe those alloys of COPPER and zinc (BRASS or LATTEN) in which the proportion of copper was low, giving a yellowish rather than a … seventeenth century for a BRASS in which, presumably, the COPPER component was lower than in other types. It may …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… but in the lower grounds is fertile: in the hilly parts copper-ore is found in various places, but none of the mines …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… stoup. Weathercock (Plate 54): with rounded body of copper, gilded, 18th-century. Miscellanea: In S. aislein W. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inscriptions. In digging a grave in this church a copper plate was found, which had been fastened inside the … one-half is yielded by the mines of Swaledale. Veins of Copper have been discovered at Richmond and Middleton-Tyas, … the metal was worked about the middle of the last century; copper pyrites is procured in considerable quantities in all …
A History of the County of Somerset
… can be no doubt, I think, that the now extinct 'Large Copper' was formerly taken in Somerset. The late Mr. Bidgood … them were two or three specimens of the "Purple-edged Copper," P. chryseis, which he informed me were taken with … not ascertain particulars, that a specimen of the 'Large Copper' was taken near Clevedon about 1869 or 1870. Not being …