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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… in lodging on board, to be ready in case of any enemy, fire, storm, or other disaster. Secondly, in not attending … Leopard, Anne, and Triumph, the last of which was on fire, and had like to have been burnt through their neglect. The same accident of fire lately happened on the Royal Sovereign at night for want …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… regiment. The French in their retreat set some houses on fire. The common people cry out it was Bampfield's treachery, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… and Thomas Witherden for 14 years of their invention of an engine whereby the making of iron, and fulling, scouring and … or London's Warning; to prevent our farther Destruction by Fire, wherein is shown the great causes of God's thus destroying us by fire, with a call from Heaven to speedy repentance, that …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… and Wales, to William Aerskin for his invention of an engine or machine without oars for the safe and expeditious … his fellow servant by striking him on the head with a fire shovel and is condemned to transportation, because, … part of the sky the likeness of a star or ball of fire of near the same circumference as the moon, as it seemed …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… A[ubrey] to his brother, Herbert Westfaling. The private fire, which has been so cunningly hid and stifled all this … petitioner to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen for quenching fire, which made a plain proof of its great power before … High Treasurer. [ Ibid. No. 142.] Statement that, though engine looms for weaving, called broad looms, are very …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… and left her with a candle burning, which set her on fire and burnt most of her with a great part of her lading. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… which banished me from business and home, and the fatal fire of the City ruined me, so that from a merchant I became … If his distemper reached Lord Carlisle's ears, it would fire his zeal to secure the government; I doubt not but your … for continuance in his employment, that after the fire, the excise office being burnt, the London farmers took …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1678
… ladders and other instruments and bombs especially to fire the city in several places at the same time, it might …