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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… some mistake. Enclosed are the Holland, Flanders, French, and Italian letters, which have been used, save those from Spain, Venice, and Dantzic. I presumed to take the particulars of the … morning, according to your commands, on Lady Thomond. She and Lady Catherine present their services to you, as also …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Yesterday was a very blowing day; the wind continues high and northerly. One of our packet-boats is just come in. They say the French privateers and capers make foul work with the Dutch fisher-boats and … Park, &c., set for about per annum 17 5 7 In Ripon a marl quarry and several cottages, and 2 11 8 lands in Whitby …
A History of the County of Somerset
… both irregular in shape, included most of the settlements, and were divided from each other by a narrow strip of Spaxton parish. One included Charlinch hamlet and Gothelney and measured 3 km. from east to west and 1 km. … higher, Quantock slopes between 76 m. and 183 m. 91 Marl digging may account for ponds in the north part of the …
The Environs of London
… hundred of Blackheath, about two miles east of Greenwich, and seven miles from London-bridge. The parish is bounded by … beneath, are various strata of clay, gravel, loam, and marl, running parallel, being altogether between 30 and 40 … cover a bed of sand of 43 feet in depth. In the stratum of marl are found prodigious numbers of extraneous fossils. This …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… extends from the river Nene to the border of Bedfordshire, and the road from Higham-Ferrers to Kimbolton crosses it. The … in the largest proportion. The subsoil is commonly clay or marl; but in some places it is found to consist of sand, … are burned with coal brought from Staffordshire. Marl exists almost in every part, and Gypsum is found in some …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… was incorporated within Cambridge's municipal boundaries, and Cherry Hinton ceased to exist as an administrative unit. … Queen Edith's occupied the south-west of the area and Coleridge ward the north-west, while Cherry Hinton ward, … 4 The subsoil consists of Middle Chalk, with layers of marl overlying Lower Chalk, producing a high quality white …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… for 13 ploughs. 66 Four ploughteams were on the demesne, and nine were worked by 8 sokemen, 19 villani, and 22 bordars. From the sokemen the lord exacted carrying … Works, calling the other Norman Portland Cement Works. 12 Marlpits were dug between those two cement works, and chalk …
Petitions to the Cheshire Quarter Sessions
… Cheshire Quarter Sessions: 1638 John Heye and Thomas Towrould. QJF 66/4/17 (1638) To the right … this countye of Chester. The humble petition of John Heye and Thomas Towrould. Shewing that whereas one Thomas Heye … at the quarter sessions next after midsomer last past, and their accused by one Jane Leighe to be the father of her …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Cheshunt (St. Mary) CHESHUNT ( St. Mary), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union of Edmonton, hundred and county of Hertford, 8 miles (S. by E.) from Hertford; … is undulated, and the soil a strong clay, resting upon marl and coarse limestone, with some sandstone. Coal of …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Huntingdon way, 6 the road was a turnpike be- tween 1745 and 1874. 7 The north-west boundary with Milton was nearly … was the northern part of the north-western one with Girton and Impington along the track of a disused Roman road. 8 At … soil lay largely upon gault, covered in places with chalk marl, but mostly, except in parts of the west, with beds of …