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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the same, to be divided amongst all the towns where the dearth of corn was. Upon my acquainting the chiefs of my …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Anne
… The Committee of Council have considered the great dearth of seamen and how hard it is to get them. Knowing that …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Vatican Archives
… San Joseffi of the late voyage, the great expenditure and dearth, with a request for money. Detailed account of the …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… sail, more or less. For these there was said to be a great dearth of seamen and gunners. Such were the preparations for …
Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh
… Makers of Leith upon the lieges through the exorbitant dearth raised by them, and of their causing through the whole …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… and eaten up the parts adiacent, by meanes whereof, great dearth is like to befall that part of the County of Devon, … that the Major of Plymouth aforesaid, to prevent the said dearth justly feared, hath stayed certaine ships of Corne, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… husbandmans monthly directions, also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, …
Survey of London
… employment'. 141 The principal reason given for the dearth of employment on the Thames was that 'so many ships …
A New History of London
… and blocked up in our late wars, so as through the great dearth and scarcity of coales, those fumous works many of …
A New History of London
… were then borrowed out of it to purchase corn during a dearth, and in 1569 we again find it mentioned as paying … these bounties promised not only a security from future dearth at home, but opened a considerable article of trade …