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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… has every prospect of being considerably increased. The Whale fishery was first introduced here in 1753, and for some …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… broken. ( d) Marks Stone.Dagenham Parish, on E. side of Whale bone Lane, 770 yards S. of road junction at Marks Gate. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… to Greenland, alias King James's Newland, for killing the whale and sea-morse, and permitting themin case the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… merchants have brought great advantage to the kingdom by whale fishing in King James's Newland, but Sir Noel Caron, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… notice of the quantity required. They will also settle whale-fishers, plant hemp and flax, and will build ships and …
A History of the County of Essex
… Henry III in 1270. 7 In 1300 8 there was trouble about a whale which the bailiffs of Colchester had taken to the … and others seized in defiance of the king's claim. Another whale was stranded on the soil of the priory in 1381, and the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm-whale. Ambergris was mostly used in PERFUMERY to make …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… year by the English, from the making of any benefit of the whale fishing at Greenland, which discontentment is also …