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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… make returns, but three quarters at least must be in raw silk; which being thrown in England, gives a quarter of … throwsters have not half their usual employment; and the raw silk of Turkey lies by disesteemed. And if this be not … of Navigation hath prevented the Dutch from bringing in raw silk, as not being of the growth of their country, but by …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… and Mystery of melting down Iron, Oare and Sinders into Raw Iron, and of other Oare and Metal, with Stone-Coal, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… rapidly, so that by 1734 upwards of five million GALLON of raw spirits were distilled in London every year. Most was …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… ardash; ardas; ardacse] From a Persian term meaning RAW SILK, the term referred to a very fine sort of PERSIAN raw silk. There was, however, some difficulty in its use as … as ALEPPO, BLACK, COLOURED, DOUBE, FINE, inferior, RAW, SABLE, SINGLE, Smyrna Found describing FERRET, RIBBON, …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… was greater than ever before. The sources for some of the raw metal and for many of the types found in south and east …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… horse-power, consuming weekly upwards of 2,000,000 lb. of raw cotton, employing on the average nearly 23,000 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Banbury in 1778, since Coventry was a source of supply of raw material for the plush-weavers, 317 and Birmingham and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which in the course of the century replaced the trade in raw wool as the source of the greatest individual fortunes. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Bodicote and from the Cherwell; the first of a number of raw storage reservoirs was opened in 1965 at Grimsbury with a …