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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… but in the Dictionary Archive it has been noted only as a HAIR POWDER [Tradecards (18c.)]. Cox gives a eighteenth/nineteenth recipe for black hair powder that involved mixing STARCH with JAPAN INK, … Although it may have been for use as a conventional hair powder, it is at least possible that it consisted of …
Old and New London
… were discovered in them, but there were "some locks of hair, and one fine braid of an auburn hue was 'tenacious and …
Physicians and Irregular Medical Practitioners in London 1550-1640
… Made the usual ref. to JC. Accused by Mr Corbet of having hair cut to cure back pain, saying that it was caused by …
Old and New London
… or mongrel, as big as a mastiff; he hath curled and black hair all over, except in his fore-feet, which are a little …
A New History of London
… Ludlow's Memoirs. The city apprentices then had their hair cut short round their heads. This regulation was adopted … America; and associations were entered into against long hair. At the restoration when a contrary extream took place, …
A New History of London
… "That no weapons formed against them should prosper, nor a hair of their heads be touched; and that one of them should … supposed to convey the noxious effluvia in their fur or hair; an early order was made by the lord-mayor and other …
A New History of London
… would own it to be their hands, upon his royal word, not a hair of their heads should be touched." On this the …