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A History of the County of Essex
… of Waltham for over two centuries was the manufacture of gunpowder, in mills on the banks of the Lea north and south of the town. 49 The history of the gunpowder mills until c. 1900 has been fully treated in … there that the earliest known record relating to the gunpowder mills is dated 1561. According to recent research …
A History of the County of Essex
… after the Dissolution. 11 In the 17th century, however, a gunpowder mill was opened at Waltham Abbey. This was taken … 16th century and the end of the 18th. The expansion of the gunpowder mill, which began in 1787 and continued …
A History of the County of Essex
… from the years before the Civil War, when a number of gunpowder mills were established on the Lea. 128 In 1659 the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… several lives lost, from the explosion of some barrels of gunpowder; the damage sustained on which occasion was …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Gracedieu for permission to enter [outwards] 30 barrels of gunpowder and pay Duty thereon without making oath that the …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… were much hurt and maimed by the accidental blowing up of gunpowder on board the East Starr prize. What is reasonable …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… by the Board of Ordnance (100 muskets, 100 barrels of gunpowder, four ton great shot, viz. Whole, Demy Culverine, …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… for supplying the Office of Ordnance with 6,000 barrels of gunpowder. Ibid. Same to the Customs Commissioners to report …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… July 1 Remitt to the Council in favour of Gordon for a gunpowder mill. Act in favour of the town of Edinburgh … Lyel of Gardin. Act [in favour of] Hope of Kerse for a gunpowder & alum manufactory. 1695 July 10 Act for a …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… by an Act of 1 James II. [c. 8 against the importation of gunpowder, &c.], but petitioner deemed them free to be …