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Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… Council of trade and plantations 1696-1782 COUNCIL OF TRADE AND PLANTATIONS 1696-1782 Commissioners 1696-1782 The Council …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretaries of State, and partly of nominated Commissioners who were accorded … 3 The Council was reconstituted in 1672 as the Council of Trade and Foreign Plantations. 4 In the following list ex …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… Councils of trade 1660-72 COUNCILS OF TRADE 1660-72 Commissioners 1660-72 … was transferred to the newly constituted Council of Trade and Foreign Plantations. 4 LIST OF APPOINTMENTS 1660 7 Nov. … Shorter, J. (C 66/3106). Secretary 1660-72 Both in 1660 and in 1668 the Councils of Trade were empowered to appoint a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… history of local administration between the Reformation and the Civil Wars. 1 At the end of our period, with a restoration in both local and central government we are, almost without exception, … matters. Then a word must be said about their control of trade, especially the food trade, and their general …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… local government in Wiltshire, courts of county, hundred, and manor, was by no means over. In the Middle Ages the county courts had acted in both larger and smaller forms, the larger representative body doing … it seems to have been customary to assess stock in trade to the rates. In 1682 quarter sessions confirmed the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… p. 282(i) Local Government Act 1929, p. 282, (ii) Gains and Losses since 1929, p. 287. The Poor Law Act of 1834 was … 60 years later. 1 It transferred control of the largest and most important branch of local government from the … to their duties as increasing population and increasing trade threw heavier burdens on the roads. 'In some parts of …
The Environs of London
… Barking. Morant derives it from the Saxon words Beorce and ing, signifying a meadow planted with birch-trees; but … visible not far from the town 2. Situation, boundaries, and extent. Barking lies in the hundred of Becontree, at the … 144; who married Martin Bladen, Esq. one of the Lords of Trade. Mr. Bladen (of whom some account has been given in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… containing 59 inhabitants. Courteenhall (St. Peter and St. Paul) COURTEENHALL ( St. Peter and St. Paul), a parish, in the union of Hardingstone, … for 188 horses. The making of caps was the principal trade of the town prior to the year 1436, when the …
Old and New London
… Site passes into the hands of the Duke of Somerset, and afterwards the Earls of BedfordOrigin of the MarketAnnals … the MarketThe Sun-dialThe Hackney-coach StandsThe Mohocks and other Marauders. The region which we intend to embrace in … Spitalfields and Farringdon absorb some portion of the trade in vegetables; but Covent Garden is the market, par …
Old and New London
… Covent Garden Part 2 of 3 CHAPTER XXXII. COVENT GARDEN AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD ( continued). '[Agopa 'y Athhyais … "Acharn." St. Paul's Church first builtDestroyed by Fire and rebuiltDispute between the Earl of Bedford and the Vicar of St. Martin's-in-the-FieldsHorace Walpole's …