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A History of the County of Shropshire
… 56 As late as 1870 colliers' daughters who had spent the summer working in market gardens around London would …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… focus hereby was the dressing of this imported cloth by dry CALENDARing supposedly to improve its appearance and … divers Strangers beyond the Seas have taken upon them to dry-calendar Worsteds with GUMs, OILs, and Presses so that a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north which are now largely channelled into ditches and dry in their uppermost reaches, Derisley valley in the northeast being entirely dry. 26 The undulating Chalk carries mostly light soils full …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… obliterated by the neglect of the war years, but a wooden summer-house and a small arched bridge are still in …
A History of the County of Essex
… who did not own houses there often rented them for the summer; rooms in Woodford were often more expensive than in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… three recesses in the walls. The Moat is incomplete and dry. ConditionOf house, ruinous. b(3). Oak Farm, house, about …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… that pepper was cold, violets and strawberries cold and dry. She used Diaprun. & Hamech. as purges, and stibium in …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 12 and many of the town's older houses retain deep, dry cellars. Water was obtained from wells and pumps until a … Yeomanry held annual public horse races as part of their summer exercises in Blenheim Park. 49 Other 18th-century …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and by 1580 he had the profits of stallage in the two summer fairs. 2 From 1700 the serjeant benefited from a cheap … 17th century the mayor was expected to attend the Lent and Summer assizes in Oxford, but was usually represented by the … paid regularly for the streets to be watered in summer. 82 Lack of main drainage and the pollution of the …