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Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… ( cremissi), valued at Ducats 333,437 1,808 cases of woad ( guado) 423,750 94 thousand skins for shoe leather …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the sixteenth century, apparently being produced by using WOAD with either KERMES or ORCHIL, though this process gave …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Notice that wad and wadd are sometimes used as variants of WOAD. In the Dictionary Archive this term is found primarily …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… refer to the same product, Weed ashes (under Weed), and Woad ashes. Under the former, the meaning is given as '? … OED earliest date of use: 1753 under Weed; 1705 under Woad ashes Found described as imported Foujnd rated by the …
A History of the County of Leicestershire
… that these were 'only casual'. Another 50 a. were under woad and the rest consisted of 'very high rich grazing land'. … The rotation followed was that of two years' ploughing for woad and three more for wheat, oats, and barley before the …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… p. 153. Co. Huntingdon. See note supra, p. 42. M Dealer in woad, a plant used for dyeing purposes. Sherborne Lane. …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… he leaves also to the aforesaid Katherine four casks of woad 5 which Thomas, the apprentice of Walter de Mordon, … 105-6). 3 Good-Easter, co. Essex. 1 Quatuor dolia Wysyde. Woad was commonly imported from Normandy and Picardy for …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… brought directly or indirectly by Italian agency. Much woad came from Toulouse, the bulk of the wine from Gascony, …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… two weighers of wool, two 'cadaveratores,' two testers of woad, wardens of corn and poultry and wardens of tanned …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from undrained swamps, come in for severe criticism. A woad mill at Parson Drove 11 near the vicarage was one of the … as described in 1899, 12 resembles the earliest type of woad mill; doubtless the pattern was handed down. It was … was in the middle of the building, and the baskets of woad were emptied into the hollow centre, where the plant was …