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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… 52. Sir Thomas Leighton to Lord Burghley. The merchants and mariners of St. Malo being arrested, I have long had no news, but I sent you and abstract of sundry letters received, from a St. Malo bark … are preparing in the river of Seville are bound for India, and will be shortly at Cadiz. The King of Spain is drawing …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… November 1599 Nov. 13. Westminster. 17. Grant to Wm. Hope and Rob. Buck, on surrender of the former, of the office of making curriers ( sic), arquebuses, handguns, and daggers, for the Tower; fec, 1 s. 4 d. a day. [3 pages, … You are to admit Messrs. Townsend, Leighton, R. Broughton, and Atkins to be of the Council in the Marches of Wales, in …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… Addenda 1692 Addenda 1692 [16912.] Accounts of artillery and stores of war at Namur, Brussels, etc., dated May, September and October, 1691, and February, 1692. [ Ibid., No. 50.] 1692. Jan. 2. Dublin …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… until February, then to be kept in Possonia (Possovio) and to continue after Easter, despatching many things left … found the original bull granted by the Emperors Arcadius and Honorius unto the church of Rome, so as the Romish … ought to defend it. When I think of the plots which are brewing, my heart burns. They say that Ce [ the Queen] is …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… which come into the ports of Italy. Also that the new and additional imposition laid by her upon Italian alum may … [o.s.], of the order of the Golden Fleece to the Emperor and Dukes Charles and Ernest of Austria, and on the following day to William …
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… officinalis, or female agaric, growing on larch trees and used in medicine as a cathartic and emetic. Polyporus fomentarius and igniarius, Male agaric, was likewise used in medicine but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… varying soils. As the county is almost fifty miles long, and contains close on 480,000 acres of land, it is not … to find that the soils vary to a very large extent, and that consequently there is no fixed rule or custom of … per acre, and 1 cwt. of nitrate; if a good sample of malting barley is required the nitrate of soda will be …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was the Cheese Country devoted to cheese dairy farming and grazing. To the extreme south-west lay a small part of the Butter Country, and in the extreme south-east there were fragments of a … Wiltshire formed the centre of a great region of sheep-and-corn husbandry. In the extreme north-west there was a …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… pure white variety of the latter used for vases, ornaments and busts. It appears also to have been used for other … only twice in the Dictionary Archive, once along with some brewing equipment in the kitchen [Inventories (1574)]. The … ale-yeast] A YEAST that was either produced in the brewing of ALE or suitable for making ale OED earliest date …