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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… the dyeing agent. Sheraton further gave instructions for making a red oil using LINSEED OIL, alkanet root and DRAGONS … as a POMADE, hair oil or OINTMENT. It cannot be used to colour water [Wren (1941)]. OED earliest date of use: 1326 … of the active ingredient, kermesic acid. Although the colour produced by alkermes was unusually bright, it had a …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… a., all pasture apart from the orchards, and was a cheese-making farm containing a dairy and a cheeseroom in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in agricultural pursuits, and many of the females in making gloves for the manufacturers in Worcester. The road …
A History of the County of York
… Richard Mauleverer, 1 whose gifts Henry II confirmed, also making the monks free from all exactions of wapentakes, … archbishop varied the earlier ordinance, at the same time making more definite the relation of the abbot to some of the …
A History of the County of London
… Rome, Venice and the city of Seville in Spain; and under colour of such falsehood he had and received many good things …
A History of the County of Essex
… Cross, and on Sunday that of the Trinity, in every mass making mention of the soul of Henry III. Chart. 13 Edw. I, …