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The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… brass pots, four spits of iron, two "rakkys" of iron, one mortar of brass with stand of iron, one "garnesh," and . . . …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… 1,171 14 0 Mary, yacht 957 11 11 Merlyn, sloop 632 7 2 Mortar, bomb 912 15 0 Mudd, pink 35 0 1 Mary, sloop 21 8 3 …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… it be so hard that you may stamp it to fine powder in a mortar, shell and all; then take as much white mustard seed … one dram; stamp this three sundry times very fine in a mortar, and then mix them three well together; after that … of fine treacle, and stamp the same with the powders in a mortar, till they be all mixed and hang to the pestle, and …
Survey of London
… The contract in July 1714 provided for 'making good Mortar well tempered and beaten with Wooden Beaters, Allowing … Brickworke filling all the Beds and joints compleatly with Mortar and wrought and performd after the best manner. 4 …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice
… ( terra) for making bricks, 3 they use wood mixed with mortar, earth, and straw, such as we use in the country, so …
Survey of London
… blocks of chalk, with wide joints set in hard yellow mortar. Four feet above the base of the walls was a single … of blocks of chalk and ragstone, bedded in hard yellow mortar. The footings of the east and south walls also … lying loose near the south wall, but there were traces of mortar on the mouldings, and it had probably been built into …
Calendar of Treasury books
… make the ditches 27,914 cubic canes; in building with lime mortar the wall of the Escarpe and fort of the Counterscarpe … 6,824 cubic canes 3 pa.; in building with earth mortar the other part of the Counterscarpe and the wall of … and Galleries with hewn stone; of their making all the mortar and flinging every morning and evening a great …
The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey
… and for other necessaries, 8 d.; for 4 sieves for making mortar, 5 d. On Sunday, 5 June, paid for 6 large sieves for mortar, 12 d. On Sunday, 22 March in the 7th year, paid to … flow down to the site of the monastery, for making the mortar, each receiving 10 d. a week, and the master 18 d., …
Survey of London
… eight courses to 21 inches, or more, up to 22 inches. The mortar was everywhere of soft lime with scarcely any …
Survey of London
… centuries, the general character of the brickwork and the mortar used with it were so uniform that they provided no … sagging layers, however, contained a good deal of tile, mortar and building dbris, suggesting that after a time the …