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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1670
… the Exchequer, from 1 Jan. 1669 to 1 Jan. 1670, on the Fire Hearths and Customs, and of what has been paid out upon … in debt, and timber was fetching a greater price after the fire of London. 4. Why Cardonnel and Eastwood have two tales …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… night, about ten, happened a sudden and most dangerous fire in some old houses in the Round Court in the Strand, … men back to back and put them down the hold, and then set [fire to the] ships. [ Torn. Ibid. No. 260.] Feb. 26. Queen's …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… of a whale at Dover is only a report, and the flashes of fire at Canterbury was only a Canterbury tale. [ Ibid. No. … on his trade of fishmonger, after losing 7,000 l. by the fire of London, having been riotously pulled down on 23 Jan. … being present, when ships are brimed, to look after the fire, especially in the night, which they have not done on …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… four or six dozen of leather buckets for fear of sudden fire.) Please speak to the Surveyor to order down some …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Mynheer Zas, when here, looked upon himself as the chief engine on which the probability of a peace between England … for your sad account of the destruction of the office by fire, and the more for the trouble received by each member, … besides so great a loss as I fear the suddenness of the fire occasioned. If I can be in any way serviceable none …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… for a patent to Sir Samuel Morland for the sole use of an engine invented by him for raising water, for 14 years. [ …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… to the King. Petition, stating that in the late dreadful fire at Wapping, in June 1673, the houses there being for the most part built of timber, and the fire happening about low water and the causeways from the … Petition for a patent for 14 years of his inventions of an engine with pipes and bags for raising water, wherein, all …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… of Edward Nelthorpe, for the invention by the latter of an engine or mill for the hulling of black pepper and barley, in … ?] Lewis Bayly to the King. Petition for patents for a new engine invented by him working with nets for taking up from … doing anything prejudicial to navigation, and also for an engine invented by him for driving piles now employed on the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… garrison of Plymouth and for an additional allowance of fire and candles for the guards in the said garrison to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… collections for them. 'Tis now much talked on as if the fire at the Temple was by design, though many say the … for 14 years to Thomas Harvy for his invention of an engine for drawing both Spanish and Swedish iron into all … is by many contradicted. Some were afraid of another fire in Southwark. Our friends are much diverted about …