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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Galingale. OED online earliest date of use: 1516 under Goose foot; 1601 under Aspalathus Found among the DRUGS, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 52 A tradition that tinkers had been hanged in the Goose Leys, adjoining the bridge over the Cherwell, was …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… Street. The name Gosling Street, Goslane in 1672 4 and Goose Lane in the 1860s 5 was also given to the hamlet of a … 12-a Furlong in West field. The rent included a well-fed goose. 14 Land had been inclosed out of the West field for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… eagle, phoenix, pelican, fox and snake, fox and goose, angel and grotesque beast. 'The second stage has, in …
A History of the County of Essex
… are both found elsewhere in Essex. 34 The first, meaning 'goose pasture', no doubt refers to the wild fowl which …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1800)]. OED online earliest date of use: 1957 under Goose-neck Sources: Inventories (late), Tradecards. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… both sites were under woodland in 1992. A cottage called Goose Green in the south end of the parish may have been that … lower common, 88 adjacent to the cottage 89 later called Goose Green, the name of which itself suggests a common. The …
Old and New London
… to Fortune and the horn; For onely now is kept a poor goose fair, Where none but meaner people doe repaire." The …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford
… rebus of Lionel, (k) monogram G.S., (l) fox carrying off goose, (m) Samson and the lion; in N. side-bay, (a) Agnus Dei …
A New History of London
… old, at 0 3 4 The best shorn mutton, at 0 1 4 The best goose, at 0 0 3 The best capon, at 0 0 2 The best hen 0 0 1 … The best pullet, at 0 1 The best capon, at 0 2 0 The best goose, from Easter to Whitsunday 0 5 0 Ditto, from ditto to … in all other parts of the year, at 0 3 0 The best wild goose, at 0 4 0 The best young pigeons, three for 0 1 0 The …