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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… EMBROIDERY silk, though it has been noted made into FERRET and RIBBON. OED earliest date of use: 1701 Found described as … Smyrna Found describing FERRET, RIBBON, SILK, SOWING AND STITCHING SILK Found in units of BALE, FANGOT, GREAT LB, … argal] TARTAR deposited from WINEs completely fermented and adhering to the sides of the CASKs as a hard crust; when …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… Letter from the Lords of the Council to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, stating that certain poor Companies, both within and without the City, had lately exhibited a supplication to the Council, complaining of sundry disorders and inconveniences which had arisen within the City and in …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… him as a most suitable situation for works of this nature, and his example having been followed by others, the … is situated in the north-eastern part of the parish, and not far distant from Barrhead. Arthurlee, West ARTHURLEE, … situated a little to the west of the road between Neilston and Barrhead, owes its origin to the introduction of the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Arundel ARUNDEL ARUNDEL AND SOUTH STOKE c. 1875 General History of the Town, p. 12. … and there was a rifle club between 1910 and 1938. 92 A sports field was opened in 1912 in Mill Road with facilities … there were also a putting and a bowling green. 94 Other sports clubs in the 20th century were a riding club in 1938 …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… Asia 1970 After the Achaemenids: exchange, transmission and transformation in the visual culture of Babylonia, Iran and Bactria, c.330-c.100 B.C. Wood, Rachel K. D.Phil., … of the effect of foreign influence on the introduction and development of modern science in China. Conroy, R.J. …
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum
… Kings most excellent Majesty upon the request of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled & by and with their advice and consent, considering the lamentable … same; that they forbeare to use all manner of Sportes and Pastimes whatsoever, and their ordinary Trades and Callings …
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… Australasia and Pacific Ocean 1972 British policy towards Australian and New Zealand ambitions in the Pacific, to 1919. Snelling, … R.C. D.Phil., Oxford. Supervised by Newbury, C.W. Literacy and social change in Fiji since 1835. Clammer, J.R. D.Phil., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… union of St. Thomas, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury and S. divisions of Devon, 8 miles (E.) from Exeter; … 2701 acres, of which 1033 are arable, 823 meadow and pasture, 92 orchard, 53 coppice, and 700 common or waste land; and is bounded on the east by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… parish, in the union of Cirencester, hundred of Crowthorne and Minety, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 3 miles … stone of inferior quality is raised for road-making and rough building. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at 8. 4. 4., and in the gift of Jesus College, Oxford: the tithes have …
Old and New London
… the summer residence of Nell Gwynne. Here, near the Fleet and amid fields, she entertained Charles and his saturnine brother with concerts and merry breakfasts, in the careless Bohemian way in which …