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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… colour varies, but it is usually dark brown, approaching black, opaque even at the edges, and with a dull fracture. …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… Chancellor of Exchequer 19 July 1642-6 Sept. 1660 (W. H. Black, Docquets of Letters Patent 1642-6 (London 1837), 351). …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… 1700 (Adm. 7/81b f. 11). Discharged 24 June 1703 (ibid.). Black, John Temporary Clerk ( Seamen's Wages) 7 Dec. 1795-29 …
Office-Holders in Modern Britain
… 1641 (grant of reversion to Bere) and 17 Dec. 1645 (W. H. Black, Docquets of Letters Patent 1642-6 (London 1837), 411); …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Chancel (34 ft. by 18 ft.) is faced on the E. and N. with black flints; it has a modern E. window, with some reset … S.E. window, borders of yellow fleurs-de-lis and cups on a black ground, and fragments, 14th-century. Locker: In chancel …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Harpur-Crewe (d. 1991). 77 There was an inn called the Black Lion in the village in 1815, and it may have been the … A description of 1784 stated that it was paved with black and white marble and that on the larger panels of the … was a member. A house in the village, possibly the former Black Lion inn, was leased and converted into a workhouse for …
A History of the County of Stafford
… flows south to join the river Churnet, and two arms of Black brook which flow north and west to join the river Dane. … brook and Thomas Smyth a year's lease of a vein of coal at Black brook. In 1404 a smith named John Toples took a lease for life of 140 ft. of coal at Black brook. He seems to have worked the mine only until …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the boundary with Cheshire on the west and a tributary, Black brook, the southern boundary with Leekfrith. The … Moss probably takes its name from marigolds growing by Black brook. 91 A house there occupied in 1634 by a coal … of Alstonefield rectory. 36 Gradbach wood along Black brook covered 26 a. in the early 19th century. The …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and certainly by 1660. 57 By 1444 there was a house called Black Brook in the south-west corner of the township beside a … rental of £143 3 s. 64 By will of 1897 George Sutton left Black Brook farm to augment the living; it was sold for …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… to the inch, with the monumental portions shown in solid black.) 1. ALTHORNE. (F.b.) (O.S. 6 in. lxii. S.E.) Althorne …