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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… miserably destroyed by caterpillars, locusts and other vermin far beyond any destruction since the island was …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… for them, but it seems shameful that such a handful of vermin should nest themselves in Canada, when the King has so …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… churchwardens, one of whom was chosen by the rector, paid vermin bounties and in 1817 stopped up a footpath across the …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… shewing that there is 54 l. due to him for the destroying vermin as may appear by two bills signed by the Lord …
Journal of the House of Lords
… under proper Management, be better guarded from Birds and Vermin than it can possibly be in large Fields. You conceive …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… [Inventories (1583)]. Arsenic was used primarily to poison vermin (hence the alternative name of RATSBANE). Although it …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and ash balls were not too prone to contamination and vermin. Not found in the OED online Sources: Inventories …
Survey of London
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin and other Animals, injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, … Cambridge Fissell (1999) Fissell, Mary (1999), 'Imagining vermin in early-modern England', in History Workshop Journal …