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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… in this list, whether they are in conventional hard copy or on the web, whether published or in manuscript, and whether early-modern or recent. For … the Guide and Tutorial, (1998), edited by N.C. Cox, D.P. Hussey and G.J. Milne, Adam Matthew Publications, Marlborough …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… colour, whether it was produced in the form of a DYESTUFF or as a PIGMENT. As a pigment, there were no problems. … way of producing a good black involved the use of WOAD or INDIGO with an overlay of MADDER, hence MADDER BLACK. The … WAX, SERGE, set, SHAG, SHAGREEN, SHALLOON, SILK, SILK HOSE, SILK TOW, SLAVE, SLEEVE, SLIPPER, SMYRNA RAISINS, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Blenheim. 66 Elsewhere she claimed that the house had or would cost the family £ 100,000 to complete. 67 … whether Blenheim workmen were employed by the Crown or the Marlboroughs was central to the prolonged disputes … 250. For Gibbons's work at Blenheim, D. Green and C. Hussey, 'Blenheim Revisited', Country Life, cv (1949), …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… particularly in WOOL, LINEN and COTTON, by the use of WOAD or INDIGO, and by the eighteenth century of LOGWOOD. PIGMENTS … GIRTH WEB, GOWN, GROGRAM, HANGINGS, HARRATEEN, HOLLAND, HOSE, IMPERLING, INKLE, JACKET, JERSEY, KENDAL, KENTISH … APRON, CRAPE, ESTAMINE, FRINGE, FUSTIAN, HANDKERCHIEF, HOSE, INKLE, LACE, LINEN, NANKEEN, SACKING, SPRIG, STOCKINGS, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… naile; bord naylle; bord nayle] The OED suggests a SPIKE or large BRAD. Presumably, given its name, it was mainly used … richest Delicacy that can be produced for a large Company, or a standing Dish for the Side-board' [Tradecards (18c.)]; … as padding, to shape a garment such as a DOUBLET, HOSE, or COAT, etc. It is for this purpose, presumably, that …
A New History of London
… by musters of soldiers, keeping profane law courts in it, or carrying burthens through it; and at the conclusion of … Amen. He next bestowed as many blessings on such as had or should contribute any thing toward that sacred edifice; … be placed; large white silk stockings up to their trunk-hose, and rich sprigs in their caps; themselves proper and …
A New History of London
… obtains a discharge, he comes out destitute of property or friends, and indisposed to resume his former employments … the great mischiefs arising from the number of shops or houses, in which, at that time, a liquor called Geneva was … 1577 garments, 827Cwt. of haberdashery, 7773 dozens of hose, 2319 kersies and dozens, 1995 perpets, 9640 goads of …
A New History of London
… of artificers and labourers to raise their prices, or to alter their hours of working, subjected them to fines, … parliament; and it was enacted that the number of taverns or retailers of wine in London, should not exceed forty, nor … wear silk in or upon his hat, bonnet, girdle, scabbard, hose, shoes, or spur leather, shall be imprisoned for three …
A New History of London
… and Eustace bishop of London, concerning the dependence or exemption of St. Martin's in the Fields from the … seeks to enter, must walk round either to the right or left; and in the corners he may perhaps gain admittance. … a Bacchus, and an Ariadne, in two small tablets by Hussey, are of first rate merit. In some of the rooms are …