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Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… " Stuff for fireworks," same date:50lb. saltpetre, 50lb. sulphur mealed, 50lb. rosin, 1lb. 'camphere,' 1 gallon …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… handguns, dags, Cologne cleves, staves, saltpetre, and sulphur. There shall be no more sulphur bought, 150 1,000 weight being bought already. It …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… (72) weight of serpentine powder; 30,000 (50) weight of sulphur; 500 (1,000) corslets; 500 (1,000) "couriers;" 1,300 …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… to enter with her for the supply of bowstaves, bows, and sulphur. Thus no personal security will be necessary. The … security the sums due to him beforehand for the bows and sulphur. He cannot offer the saltpetre at less than 3 l. 10 …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… men. The Queen has a worthy provision of saltpeter and sulphur, which he trusts shall be preserved from King Philip. …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… stores as they lack, viz., guns, shot, powder, nitre, sulphur, lead, iron, and the like, provisions, especially …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… saltpeter, corryne powder, serpentine powder, matches, sulphur, and pick heads. The sum total is 48,261 l. Signed. …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… for saltpetre, new-building and repairing of powder mills, sulphur, coal and workmanship of power. Ibid. June 28 Same …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… It is also consistent with the synonym FLOWERS OF SULPHUR, in which the plural is almost invariable. Flowers of BRIMSTONE was a finely powdered form of SULPHUR and a synonym for FLOWERS OF SULPHUR. OED online earliest date of use: 1607 under Ginimony …