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Survey of London
… of call on their homeward voyages: teas, silks, saltpetre, Madeira, wine and spices, all of which had a ready sale on …
The Letters of William Freeman, London Merchant, 1678-1685
London Record Society, volume 36. The 686 letters written by William Freeman, a sugar planter and slave trader who had moved from the Caribbean to London to combine these pursuits with the work of a general commission merchant trading to the English West Indies, are a rare source of information about late-seventeenth-century trans-Atlantic enterprise and London business. Selections reproduced here are addressed to partners, agents, employees, correspondents and customers in Freeman’s native Leeward Islands, Africa, Madeira, Portugal, France, Ireland, Scotland and the West of England.
Survey of London
… was not impressed by Faber's apologia for Brompton as the Madeira of London, and thought the site essentially in a …
Old and New London
… ditto, ditto, for Easter Monday, 28 4s. 3d.493 12s. 3d.; Madeira, 32 dozen, 59 16s. 4d.; sherry, 61 dozen, 67 1s. 0d.; …
Survey of London
… (17th Nov., 1842). Served in Flanders, 1793; Governor of Madeira, 18012; M.P., 180630; served in Sicily and Spain, …
Old and New London
… China is so inviting, and the port, the sherry, and the madeira so unexceptionable, and so excellently bodied for an …
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… on Liquors are collected. Current Money. On every Pipe of Madeira Wine imported, 2 l. Every Pipe of the Western … passed in 1697, an Impost is laid on all Liquors imported. Madeira Wines per Pipe 2 l. Of the Western Islands, or mixt … 1726.7, an additional Duty of 20s. per Pipe is laid on all Madeira Wine. NEVIS By an Act passed in 1675, an Impost of …
Trinity House of Deptford Transactions, 1609-35
… southwards (vizt. Barbary, Guinea, Benin, the Canaries, Madeira, and the Azores); the Straits mouth northwards to …