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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… of Parliament. The causes of the decay in the supply of saltpetre are asserted to be the disorderly conduct of the saltpetre men, and the consequent endeavour of all people to destroy the generation of saltpetre within their possessions. The petitioner offers to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… but urged the propriety of increasing the supply of saltpetre by compelling ships homeward bound to bring saltpetre as ballast. Dec. 6. [Dover Castle. 25. Sir John … of gunpowder. He suggests ways of increasing the supply of saltpetre, especially from Ireland, in which country it had …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… to the Council. Petitioner has authority for making saltpetre in cos. Gloucester, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… and releasing whom they would, and the misconduct of saltpetre men. 12. James Martin, a clergyman, to the King. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… 54. Project for provision of a sufficient quantity of Saltpetre for the public use out of barren and almost …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… Weston. Report as to the quantities of gunpowder and saltpetre then in the Ordnance Office; of the former 100 …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… Attorney General Heath. To renew the Commission for making Saltpetre granted to the late Duke of Buckingham and Earl of … the message sent by Sir Francis Cottington, the saltpetre commission is to proceed according to the writer's …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… Skinner and various other persons to the Commissioners for saltpetre. Robert More, of Southwark, flax dresser, having obtained a deputation for making saltpetre in Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, and having no … to apprehend Thomas Guy, who having made quantities of saltpetre and gunpowder in Devon, to the prejudice of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… to suffer the East India Company to export 50 tons of saltpetre, brought from the Indies, and 1,000 barrels of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… younger, to the Lords Commissioners for the Admiralty and Saltpetre. Gave 100 l. for a commission for making saltpetre in cos. Worcester, Hereford, and Salop, and … petitioner, because he never brought in his proportion of saltpetre, but sold it away.] [Nov. 14 ?] 65. Account of the …