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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… London Dispensatory. It is possible that ARGENT VIVE or QUICKSILVER was meant, but more probably MERCURY SUBLIMATE. … the DRUGS as 'Argentum Sublime or limum, the pound, or Quicksilver' Found rated by the POUND, HUNDREDWEIGHT Sources: … of the Latin 'argentum vivum', alternatively in English QUICKSILVER, in other words metallic MERCURY OED earliest …
Old and New London
… time consisted of jewels and precious stones, bullion, quicksilver, wrought silks, cloth of gold and silver, gold …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… was often contaminated with copper. Other suggestions like QUICKSILVER are unlikely to have succeeded. All the workable …
Calendar of Border Papers
… conclude: pride and ignorance of our profession wilbe the quicksilver to eate out ourselves, and "lett other drones …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… treated some horses suffering from scab with brimstone and QUICKSILVER [Diaries (Fell)]. Nowadays it survives in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… terms, "all the mines royal of gold, silver, copper, and quicksilver" within several specified counties of England, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… 23rd of December, for the Indias the 6 frigates with the quicksilver and (Papal) bulls; also they carried a new …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… went from hence in November last, and carried the King's quicksilver and the Pope's bulls, besides 300 soldiers and a …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… that are appointed to carry the Pope's bulls and the quicksilver. It is thought they will depart with the breezes …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… and will with aqua fortis be dissolved again into quicksilver, and he saith that the said picture was made … Hillyard make the metal. The mixture in the box is made of quicksilver sublimed from the fces of vitriol salniter and …