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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the remainder meadow and pasture; the soil is for the most part a strong clay, the surface flat: corn is grown in … of noble dimensions, and decorated and furnished in the most costly manner; the library is fitted up with elaborately …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of the eastern boundary was the river Brue, 24 from which most of the land rose over Forest Marble clay 25 from 65 m. …
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
… Mr. Gervas Bourne, who resides in this place, has a most valuable collection of fossils, partly from the bowels … them were hurt. The landlord's wife, however, was in the most iminent danger, for she was passing by the buildings … places, which much diversified these beautiful and most powerful testimonies of Noah's flood, (using the sublime …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Jean Marie Farina. Much was still sold under his name, most of it spurious, in the mid-nineteenth century. Charles …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are several handsome streets; the whole being one of the most important suburbs of Sheffield. Banner-Cross, formerly …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Eaton more central to those estates and so perhaps the most eligible location for the church of a parish of widely … 29 small tenements, and 35 cottages in the parish. 5 Most cottages were at Soudley and Hay wood, 6 although by c. … property in Eaton to John Pakington included some, perhaps most, of the parish's grain tithes. 62 The Lytteltons sold …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… strongly resembling snakes in external appearance. Unlike most fish, eels can breath to some extent in air and so can … kept by him 'which shall so seize the same' [Acts (1666)]. Most cookery books of the day included a number of recipes … Tradecards. Egypt flax FLAX imported from Egypt. Although most hot countries produce inferior flax, which prefers a …