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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… a HOG or an OX, especially when macerated and soaked in water 'to extract their malignity, lest the cattle perish'. … it was thought necessary to boil them three times in fresh water to remove the toxicity [Anon (1695)]. The acorn was … the Norfolk Broads, but it persists elsewhere in shallow water [Mabey (1996)]. Pemberton included it in his Materia …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1897 in an extension of a small scheme for supplying water to Horsepool bottom in the adjoining part of the … 50 and covered over 32 a. in 1926. 51 Abenhall manor had a water mill in the early 14th century. 52 Two dilapidated water mills recorded there in the 1340s 53 were presumably on …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… of the parish, on the farm of Kinbeam, is a fresh-water loch, called Monwig, situated in a large and deep moss; … 22 broad, and in some parts very deep; and the dark mossy water, of which it consists, is covered, in the season, with … near Pitjossie, in the glen of Dardar, is a cascade, the water of which, after dashing from the top of a rock into …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… of this epitaph is corroborated by the appearance, at low water, of a large tract of hard loam, in which oak-trees have … which is much used in making cement for works under water, and for canal locks, &c. Aberthaw, West (Aber-Ddaw) … annum and upwards; also for supplying the inhabitants with water, which had previously been brought from the rivers …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… act of the 6th of George IV., and is amply supplied with water. The several bridges near the town have been widened … original, by which the corporation was styled the "Mayor, Bailiffs, and Burgesses of the borough of Abingdon." Under … is worked by a stream issuing from St. Anthony's well, the water of which is reputed to be efficacious in cutaneous …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… and tenements for a certain grant of an easement of a water course by the p. & c. over their lands lately made and … masse a priest to say the de profundis and to cast holy water upon his grave. A bequest to the prior, sub-prior, and …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… to the freedom of St. Mungo, to take toll or custom by water or land. Edinburgh, 4 February 144950. Liber Ruber … buying of wines from a Frenchman, out of his ship in the water of Clyde. Edinburgh, 29 November 1469. Acta Dominorum …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… of herring or other Fishes transported from the bridge and water of Glasgow, belonging as well to free men as to unfree … transported therefrom, or brought to the said bridge and water; and, if necessary, to poind and distrain therefor; the … of the Archbishop of Glasgow in a mill situated upon the Water of Kelvin, whereby the said Archibald disponed to the …
The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book, 1462-1511
… being, if there be any mayor thereof, or the bailiff or bailiffs of such city, borough or village for the time being, if any bailiffs or bailiff thereof be, and no mayor or sergeant or … for drinking at St Katherine's when the king came up by water 3d. Item for boat hire to Westminster when the wardens …
The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book, 1462-1511
… paid to Robert Skydmore on the same day for faggots and water at our court 4d. Item paid on the same day to Robert … the same Robert for a quarter of coals 4d. Item paid for water 3d. Item paid for a quarter of oak to go over the hall …