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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… were no problems. Graphite, called in the early-modern period BLACK LEAD, gave good results with minimal processing. … contentious. All mourners conventionally wore black for a period of time, widows especially. It may be that the black … market. Although it was generally accepted that the period of mourning was for one year only, some widows …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the common. 45 Medieval Tenant Farming In the late Saxon period Bourton, like several neighbouring parishes, was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 3 Parish Boundaries and Landscape In the late Anglo-Saxon period Black Bourton formed part of the neighbouring royal … century, 20 implying that it was metalled in the Roman period, and in the 18th century the road formed part of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… estates MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES In the late Anglo-Saxon period Black Bourton belonged presumably to the large royal …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Parish Church Origins and Status In the late Anglo-Saxon period Black Bourton formed part of a large area dependent on … and with outbuildings to the east. 29 During the same period it was let first to tenant farmers and later to … feelings towards the Church, though during the same period, and despite Lupton's avowed hostility, Primitive …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… WHITE GINGER, WHOLE GINGER. Sources: Inventories (mid-period), Inventories (late), Newspapers. References: Simmonds … the OED Found describing KNIFE Sources: Inventories (mid-period). Black heart The OED has an entry only for the … also HELLEBORE, WHITE HELLEBORE. Sources: Inventories (mid-period). References: Culpeper (1653, new ed. n.d.), Gerard …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Diaries, Houghton, Inventories (early), Inventories (mid-period), Inventories (late), Newspapers, Patents, Recipes, … of HUNDRED See also WHITE PIECE. Sources: Inventories (mid-period). Black pins [black and white pins; bla pins] Early … but no dated citation as such Sources: Inventories (mid-period), Tradecards. Black pitch [black do.] The term may …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… to have been held in especial esteem in the early-modern period. This may have been, as the OED suggests, because they … Acts, Houghton, Inventories (early), Inventories (mid-period), Inventories (late), Patents, Rates, Tradecards. … LEAD. Found in units of DOZEN Sources: Inventories (mid-period), Inventories (late). Blackplate [plates white or …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a domestic chapel belonging to Blackley Hall, and, after a period of disuse, was purchased by the inhabitants, in 1610; … of the fee of William Peverel. The manor came at a later period to the Bradshaws and the Stanleys; and in the 10th of …