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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and appears only once in the Dictionary Archive as 'Silver Watch, with an ... Iron-wire Chain with two keys' [Newspapers (1760)]. In this example it was clearly a WATCH CHAIN, though of unusual form. Another form of WIRE …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… expected to cross over from Harwich to Holland, and will watch all persons embarking and stop those who have not the …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… by papists in the county of Lancaster, with design to watch their opportunity to disturb the peace, commands you to …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… Major John Wildman to Dr. Wynne. I have made my officers watch the whole night for the coming of the King's letters …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… use of the muskets already in store, to be employed in the watch house in Portsmouth Dockyard, for the better security … of the ordnance, to give order for furnishing every watch house at Portsmouth with a sufficient quantity of …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary
… all the King's ministers within land to hold a strict watch upon these proceedings; but at the same time think it …