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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… and soldiers as passengers, and laden with rye, peas, and flax, one half whereof is claimed by the Scotch merchants on …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… It states there were some expressions as to tithes upon flax lands mentioned in the linen bill, which gave great …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… rs of Customs to the Lord High Treasurer, as to certain flax seized on board a French prize taken by the Zealanders. …
Calendar of Treasury Papers
… were entirely ignorant of the art of managing and working flax, spinning the yarn, and whitening the cloth, and were …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… upholder (1778). Son of John Woolford of Ipswich, Suffolk, flax dresser. Free of the London Upholders Co., 4 March 1778. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… north of Lake Lane. 65 Crops grown in 1341 included hemp, flax, apples, and pears; sheep, cows, pigs, and geese were …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… a large distillery employing a number of hands, and a flax-mill erected in 1792; but the expectations of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Blue Lane East and Portland Street; it was known as the Flax-oven Gate by 1824. About the mid 1840s it was moved … and Proffitt Street but continued to be known as the Flax-oven Gate. A second gate had been erected by 1816 on the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… (mixed corn), barley, oats, and dredge. 63 Hemp and flax were also grown in both Walsall and Bloxwich, and a … in Rushall Street is mentioned in 1597. 64 A former flax oven in Chapel field, Bloxwich, was used as a Methodist … a few firms in Walsall and Bloxwich made rope, dressed flax, and spun twine. Much of the work was for the saddlery …
A History of the County of Stafford
… century, possibly from 1781, Methodists were meeting in a flax oven on Bullock's Fold in Chapel field in the …