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The Environs of London
… circumnavigator, who discovered the north passage to China. He defended Brest against a superior force of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… OED earliest date of use: 1660, only in a quotation under CHINA PEA that offers no clue as to meaning Found rated by …
Cardiff Records
… porcelain, to form the nucleus of a collection of local china. The Draft Scheme for a University College of South …
Old and New London
… of various styles and dates, with a profusion of Svres china, among which is the splendid service given by Louis XV. …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… by White's. 12 The horse tail hair, then from Siberia and China, was washed and disinfected, sorted into colours and … of hair, taken from the tails of live horses imported from China, limits fabric width to c. 2 ft. Short and waste hair … Bailey Hill in 1877 with a workshop, and later a glass and china shop. John Pither invented a method of locking sets of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… interest in 1787. 57 The two- and three-storeyed Salopian China Manufactory, 58 was built south-west of Inett Farm, and … from Cardington as well as from the Lizard (Cornw.), and china clay was presumably also brought from Devon or … (in Willey) and Calcutts (in Broseley). The Salopian China Warehouse opened in London in 1783. 62 The works …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… chamber to the gallarie: 6 peeces or a sute of China hangings of crimson and watchet satten painted and …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… discovery of a passage by the North West to Cathaya and China, etc; giving them licence to transport out of this …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… principal, a man of Encusen, that hath inhabited in the China of long time, is returned, and, as is thought, will …
Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House
… state afforded; the one a little table carpet wrought in China, a thing well esteemed of himself yet unworthy of so …