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Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Repository of Art at 94 Market St had been established for the last 20 years. In 1817 Vittorio Zanetti supplied to Dunham Massey, Cheshire, a frame for a drawing 8 7 @ 3/6 …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… that is roasted COBALT ore, or impure cobalt arsenate. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the centre of … and packed into barrels. Here it set so hard that it had to be broken up with sledge hammers [Harley (1970)]. Although … and not SAPPHIRE [Inventories (1699)]. The Book of Rates for 1660 has three adjacent entries 'Saffora, vide Barilia', …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… (St. Peter) ZEAL-MONACHORUM ( St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Crediton, hundred of North Tawton, South Molton … for 419, and the glebe comprises 46 acres. The poor have some small bequests. Zeal, South ZEAL, SOUTH, a chapelry, in … the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, is now a school-house. Zeals ZEALS, a tything, …
Survey of London
… CHAPTER 17: ZOAR STREET AND ZOAR STREET CHAPEL In 1687 the Baptists of Southwark built 201 a meeting house in Gravel … Winchester. At that time Gravel Lane extended northwards to the river along the line of the present Sumner Street and … was so named because of it, since "Zoar" means a place of refuge or sanctuary. The street is marked on the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Zoology Fishes, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals FISHES The fishes of Somerset have received a good deal of attention … who has contributed an excellent paper on the subject to the Somerset Archological and Natural History Society in … could not add to this record in his Revised List printed some twenty-four years later. I have however frequently …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ZOOLOGY MOLLUSCS NON-MARINE Favoured in its situation and the quality of its soil, the county of Somerset yields a … grayana. The last named form is strictly confined to the Thames estuary, and its occurrence in a Somerset list … probably more so. The majority of insects feed on plants, some confining themselves to special plants, which may be …
A History of the County of Somerset
… recorded in the subjoined list, and add a few species to it. Two or three species not yet obtained certainly await … was found by Mr. Pocock in vast numbers on a pebbly beach some two miles south of Portishead, under an accumulation of … Known also as Dolomedes or Ocyale mirabilis. LYCOSID The members of this family have also eight eyes, similarly …