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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and ones that were more neutral in tone, like COMMON, ORDINARY and PUMP. It suggests that cooks were acutely aware … the river. The BUSHEL water measure seems to have been the ordinary bushel heaped, although a late-fifteenth century … the bushel water measure was 2 bushels 'and more of the ordinary WINCHESTER MEASURE by which corn is usually sold by …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… well as 2 or more haywards each year until inclosure. 49 Ordinary sessions were needed more than once a year in the …
Old and New London
… such a manner as to be easily removed, so as to form the ordinary dress circle of a theatre, if required. Every …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… sides with massive walls of freestone. This basin has, in ordinary tides, from 12 to 18 feet depth of water; and …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… same material; the roofs are covered with stone slates and ordinary slates. The two ashlar quoins imbedded in the S. …
Old and New London
… arms; the last seats, up to the west wall, are of the ordinary dimensions of the open seats in churches, for those …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… of the gild thus granted, or its relation to the ordinary governmental machinery of the borough. Doubtless all …
A History of the County of Essex
… the parish, in the south and west, lay below the level of ordinary spring tides. From early times those marshes were …
A History of the County of Essex
… Ham. More than half the borough lay below the level of ordinary spring tides, and three-fifths of it below the level …