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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… found in the OED online Sources: Tradecards. Mississippi ball [missipy ball] A small BALL for playing Mississippi. This was a game similar to …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in the south by 1568. 40 A double fives court known as the Ball Court, on the south side of High Street, was built by …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… (1). Candelabrum: In N. aisle, of brass, with large lower ball, four, originally six, scrolled radial sconce brackets, … balls with radial scrolls, and dove finial at top; lower ball inscribed 'Given to the parish church of Milborne St. … three courses of ashlar, profiled to form a pedestal for a ball finial of copper. A stone in the plinth is inscribed …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… is pierced with quatrefoils and the string-course has ball-flower ornament. At the S.E. corner of the transept is … the N.E. face, modillion cornices on all four sides, and ball finials. Curved wing-walls connect the piers to the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… of the main cusps; the label is moulded and enriched with ball-flower ornament and a flowing stem between each flower; … enriched with dog-tooth ornament, and the W. capital with ball-flower ornament; on the S. side of each capital the … stops and finial; jambs and head moulded and enriched with ball-flower ornament, no basin, c. 1330. In towerin S.E. …
Survey of London
… it 'a perfect Hole . . . I should like to put a cannon ball through it'. 81 The weekly rents were increased in the …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… Wren, Mr. Talman, Mr. Banks, Mris. Simons and Mr. Ball to be here on Tuesday morning next. Desire Mr. Boyle … for New Forest. Sir Christopher Wren, Mr. Tallman, Mr. Ball and some other officers of the Works [are called in]. …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… him] paid over to the Treasurer of the Ordnance for cannon ball & the freight thereof to Barcelona: which sum is to be …