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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… glass. Curiously, cucumbers were used to flavour VINEGAR and John Houghton claims that they, like green WALNUT and MELON, were used to make imitation MANGO by having their … took its name from Kushtia a place of considerable trade in the Nadiya district in India. It was a product of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… - Cumberland Cuerdale CUERDALE, a township, in the parish, and Lower division of the hundred, of Blackburn, union of … of Richard II. it passed by marriage to the Molyneuxs, and since 1582 it has been the property of the Asshetons, of … much impeded by shoals as to form a very imperfect line of navigation, and its use is now almost wholly superseded by …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Culross - Saint Cyrus Culross CULROSS, a royal burgh and a parish, in the county of Perth, 7 miles (W.) from … villas in the immediate vicinity. A very considerable trade was formerly carried on in the export of coal, of which … in addition to the usual branches, Latin, mensuration, and navigation are taught; the master has the legal …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (S. E. by E.) from Alford; containing 183 inhabitants, and comprising 1228 a. 31 p. The living is a discharged … rectory, united in 1733 to the rectory of Anderby, and valued in the king's books at 10. 10. 2. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment, in 1819; the glebe comprises 215 acres. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… area, mostly comprising former demesne of Witney manor and the former Witney park, was inclosed, as was the large … apart as Hawksley in the township's north-west corner, 2 and between Witney manor house and the river on its eastern … who seems to have been involved in the Witney cloth trade and held substantial estates elsewhere; he made his …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney manor. The manor was held by bishops of Winchester and their lessees until 1862, when it was sold to the duke of … in Curbridge held in the early 13th century by Adam Palmer and others, and in 1279 by John of Woodstock and others: 3 … Mymmes, of a family involved in the Gloucestershire wool trade, acquired the fee, and in 14789 it passed to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Curbridge, a largely rural township occupying the south and south-west of Witney parish, was centred on Curbridge … of the borough around Woodford (later Witney) Mills, and, on the south, Witney's manor house, church, and rectory house. 2 In the south-west of the township …
Survey of London
… Custom House Quay and the Old Custom House IX.CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY AND THE OLD CUSTOM HOUSE Until the year 1814 the Custom House … some speciall warrant, this service being for the publique trade of the Citty and so consequently for the advantage of …
Cardiff Records
… Cardiff's position as a port of commerce has advanced and increased; and her harbour was for ages the headquarters of maritime … page by page through the records of a period when the trade of this port was represented by a score or so of …
Cardiff Records
… Hawshaw, was appointed in 1732 to cruise between Milford and King Road. The Cardiff Custom officials write to the … "the Smuglers do begin in this Channel to appear already, and about a fortnight ago there was one of them, of Aberthaw … the said M r Williams "is very well vers'd in the Coast Trade, w[hi]ch is the only Business they have in that Creek …