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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1770)]. It was also not used exclusively with flax. HEMP was also measured by the head, but possibly in smaller units, since '3 head' and '2 head' hemp have been noticed [Inventories (1690)]; [Inventories …
London Hearth Tax
… John Blatt 0 j Robert Gardner 5 s Charety Prince 1 s James Hemp 3 s Henry Bankes 3 s Thomas Skarlett 3 s Elizabeth …
A Dictionary of London
… Sutton Court. First mention : Strype, 1720, I. ii. 131. Hemp Yard Out of Petticoat Lane, in Portsoken Ward (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. Hemp Yard Out of Creechurch Lane, in Aldgate Ward (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. Hemp yard, Seething Lane See John de Vere's Yard. Hen and …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Hemp - Herse Hemp [hempe] Hemp and HEMPEN were often used elliptically for the products of hemp such as HEMPEN CLOTH, HEMPEN YARN and HEMPSEED. Usually …
Henley: Social and Political History
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 16, Henley-on-Thames and Environs
… to work. Abraham Pocock (d. 1596), yeoman, left 10 to buy hemp, flax, wool and yarn to keep the poor in employment, 3 …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… and Brian Gyll, soldiers of Calais. Pardon for stealing hemp from John Vengheler. Del. Westm., 17 April 20 Hen. …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… shortly, "for I know he shall be discharged, either with hemp or wax and parchment." Hears that his nephew Bryan has …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… home counties, and as far west as Bristol, to provide hemp, take up workmen and fetch "stuff and bowstrings" to …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… for 3 weeks, 3 s. 9 d. 11 March 11 Hen. VIII., 120 st. of hemp weighing 1,500lb., at 6 s. 1 d. the cwt. Goats' hair for …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… will amount to 450 l.; the cost of pitch, tar, oakum, hemp, tallow, resin, iron, seacoal, planks, cloveboard, …