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A History of the County of Shropshire
… Wackley farm, Petton; 26 Shropshire then had at least one snail farm too. 27 Another way in which conservationist …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… were found with floral and animal vestiges, peat, and snail shells, are demonstrably of Mesolithic age. They …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… HOSE, SILK TOW, SLAVE, SLEEVE, SLIPPER, SMYRNA RAISINS, SNAIL, SPECTACLES, SPRUCE, SPUR, STEAN, STICKING PLASTER, …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… have, since I came, laboured to know what I may, and, as a snail, creeping on to acquaint myself with what is fit for me …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… as is ordered to all vice-admirals. The officers proceed snail-like in their business, without life as it were, having …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… through millstones, take alarm at the creeping of a snail, and throw open the gates to let in the Tartars, and so …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… OED earliest date of use: 1552 Found as an ingredient in SNAIL WATER Found in units of BOTTLE, LB, OZ See also ESSENCE …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… on the eastern downs in the 20th century, 66 and much of Snail down in the south-west, and downland along the western … parish boundary. A group of barrows forms a cemetery on Snail down. 79 The parish boundary crosses field systems of … east of Sunton village, on the western downs, and on Snail down. 80 Several prehistoric ditches on Snail down are …