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The golden fleece: or the trade, interest, and well-being of Great Britain considered. With remarks on the present decay of our woollen manufactures, and the Impending Dangers that Threaten this Kingdom, by suffering (or conniving at) the Illegal Exportation of British and Irish Wool, and Woollen Goods thoroughly Manufactured in Ireland, to Foreign Parts. Likewise Heads for a Bill, to put an Effectual Stop to this Matchless Evil, so injurious to both King and Country. To which is added, A Scheme, or Proposal, for taking away those Burthensome Duties on Leather, Soap, Candles, Painted Silks, and Starch, which raise Net, but 473,427 l. and yet cost the Subject at least Three times as much; and to Replace the like Sum, by a small Duty on Wool; also to employ the same Officers in the Service of their Country, to Register the Wool of Great Britain and Ireland; by which Alteration, the following Proposal will clearly demonstrate, That no Rank or Condition of Men will pay One Shilling, where they now pay Ten, by the aforesaid Duties on Leather, Soap, Candles, &c. and at the same time, add many Millions Sterling Yearly to the Trade of the Nation. Submitted to the Consideration of Parliament, as also the Landlords, Tenants, Manufacturers, and Fair Traders, for whose Ease and Benefit this is designed.
Smith, Simon, active 1731-1739.Date: 1737- Books
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Tables of weights and prices, on a new plan; By which the value of any quantity of goods, sold by avoirdupois weight, from a single pound to five tuns, and from two shillings to ten pounds ten shillings per hundred, may be known without the labour of multiplying or dividing. Particularly useful to dealers in hops, wool, hay, cheese, grocery, and other commodities. By J. Elmer, of Farnham, Surry.
Elmer, J.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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Before the Most Noble and Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Appeals in Prize Causes. La Dame Marie, Marcus Bruan, master. John Peter du Roveray, of London, merchant, the claimant of thirty bales and twenty bales of wool, laden in the above ship, appellant. Against Francis todory, commander of the private ship of war the St. George, the captor of the said ship and goods, respondent. Case on behalf of the claimant and appellant.
Great Britain. Lords Commissioners of Appeals in Prize Causes.Date: 1786?]- Books
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Whereas an act passed in the tenth year of Her Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for regulating, improving and encouraging the woollen manufacture of mixt or medly broad cloth, and for the better payment of the poor employed therin, hath proved ineffectual to prevent the abuses committed in making and measuring the same, to the disreputation of the said manufacture abroad, and the great discouragement of the good makers and fair dealers therein:
Date: 1714?]- Books
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Inland traders vindicated: Or, Some remarks on the Reverend Mr. Smith's scheme, intitled, Memoirs of wool: shewing the dangerous consequences which must ensue, should the government give a sanction to the said scheme. Also a brief discourse on good and evil, viz. The constitution of Britons, duty of representatives; duty of constituents; violencies of enemies; enormities of countrymen; mortality of cattle; use and liberty of speech and the press; and the mis-use and loss of either. By John Newball.
Newball, John, active 1730-1748.Date: MDCCXLVIII. [1748]- Books
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The art of bleaching piece-goods, cottons and threads, of every description, rendered more easy and general by means of the oxygenated muriatic acid; with the method of rendering painted or printed goods perfectly white or colourless. To which are added, the most certain methods of bleaching silk and wool; and the discoveries made by the author in the art of bleaching paper. Illustrated with nine large plates, in quarto, representing all the utensils and different manipulations of the bleaching process. An elementary work, composed for the use of manufacturers, bleachers, dyers, callico printers, and paper-makers / by Pajot des Charmes ... Translated from the French, with an appendix [by William Nicholson].
Pajot des Charmes, C.Date: 1799- Books
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The art of bleaching piece-goods, cottons, and threads, of every description, Rendered more easy and general by Means of the Oxygenated Muriatic Acid; with the Method of rendering painted or printed Goods perfectly white or colourless. To which are added, the most certain Methods of bleaching Silk and Wool; and the Discoveries made by the Author in the Art of bleaching Paper. illustrated with nine large plates, in Quarto, Representing all the Utensils and Different Manipulations of the Bleaching Process. An elementary work, composed for the use of manufacturers, bleachers, Dyers, Callico Printers, and Paper-Makers. By Pajot des Charmes, Formerly Inspector of Manufactures, Member of the Lyceum of Arts, of the Society of Inventions and Discoveries of the Philomathic Society, in France. Translated from the French, with an appendix.
Pajot des Charmes, C.Date: 1799- Books
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An Act to amend an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act to preserve and encourage the woollen and silk manufactures of this kingdom, and for more effectual imploying the poor, by prohibiting the use and wear of all printed, painted, stained, or dyed callicoes, in apparel, houshold stuff, furniture, or otherwise, after the twenty fifth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and twenty two (except as is therein excepted) so far as relates to goods, made of linen yarn, and cotton wooll, manufactured in Great Britain.
Great Britain.Date: 1736]- Books
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A collection of the laws of the customs now in force, to prevent frauds and abuses in the revenue, and the illegal importation and exportation of prohibited and uncustomed goods: Being an abridgement of several acts of Parliament from the II Edw. III. to the 12 Car. II. and the clauses at large from the several acts passed since the 12 Car. II. with notes connecting those which relate to each other: wherein are continued the powers given by the laws now in force to justices of the peace, for the more effectual executing the laws of the customs: together with a list of the several head and member ports and creeks thereto belonging, in England and Wales; and the names, descriptions and dimensions of the lawful kesy, wharfs, &c. in each port and creek, where goods and merchandize, carried to or brought from foreign parts, or wooll or woollen goods coastways, can be shipped or landed: as also forms of warrants, to be gained by justices of the peace, in several cases where they are empowered to act for the security of His Majesty's Customs: to which are added, the opinions and resolutionsof council, in particular doubtful cases, for the information of the justices; and an alphabetical index to the whole.
Great Britain.Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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An act for amending an act, intituled, An act for encouragement of tillage, and better employment of the poor; and also, for the more effectual putting in execution, An act, intituled, An act to encourage the draining and improving of boggs and unprofitable low grounds, and for Easing and Dispatching the Inland Carriage, and Conveyance of Goods from one Part to another in this Kingdom; And also, For laying several Duties upon Coaches, Berlins, Chariots, Calashes, Chaises and Chairs, and upon Cards and Dice, and upon Wrought and Manufactured Gold and Silver Plate, Imported into, or Made in Ireland, for the Purposes therein Mentioned; And also, for Repealing the Duties Payable upon the Exportation of Wooll, Bay-Yarn and Woollen-Yarn, out of this Kingdom for England.
Ireland.Date: MDCCLII. [1752]- Books
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A letter writ by Segdirboeg, in answer to five written by Mr. Samuel Webber, upon the decay of the woollen manufactories in Great Britain and Ireland: also to his scheme to prevent that iniquitious [sic] traffick for the future, by an Universal Registry. Dedicated to the Lord-Mayor, Court of Aldermen, and Common-Council of London. Wherein is discovered the design and ambitious views of the said Webber and his Accomplices; as appears by his eager solicitations for a Charter, more than for the National Interest. To which is prefix'd, An Abstract of the New Act made against the illicite Exportation of Hool; and a short and familiar Scheme of less Trouble, and more Gain and Safety for the King and Nations Good, without a Charter. Also Segdirboeg's Challenge.
Bridges, George, wool-comber.Date: [1739]- Books
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Salt and fishery : a discourse thereof insisting on the following heads : 1) the several ways of making salt in England, and foreign parts, 2) the character and qualities good and bad, of these several sorts of salt, English refin'd asserted to be much better than any foreign, 3) the catching and curing, or salting of the most eminent or staple sorts of fish, for long or short keeping, 4) the salting of flesh, 5) the cookery of fish and flesh, 6) extraordinary experments in preserving butter, flesh, fish, fowl, fruit, and roots, fresh and sweet, for long keeping, 7) the case and sufferings of the saltworkers, 8) proposals for their relief, and for the advancement of the fishery, the woollen, tin, and divers other manufactures / by John Collins.
Collins, John, 1625-1683Date: 1682- Ephemera
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Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Ephemera
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Genuine Dalmatian insect powder for the destruction of insects : quite harmless to animal life but effectually destroys every tribe of insect.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]- Books
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A catalogue of the household furniture, And other effects, of Edward Younge, Esq. (lately Deceased) Of Little Durnford, near Salisbury, Consisting of Mahogany Four-Post and other Bedsteads, with Needle Work, Linen and Woollen Furniture; Damask and other Window Curtains; fine Feather Beds Bedding, &c. Chairs and Tables of all Sorts; Marble Tables, on elegant carved Frames; Variety of Carpets; Pier, Sconce, and Chimney, Glasses, &c. Stove Grates, and Kitchen Furniture. - -Also a large Collection of Paintings by eminent Masters; 700 Ounces of Plate; fine India Cabinets and Dressing Boxes; curious old China; Linen, Liquors, Casks, &c. - Five Lead Figures as large as Life; a Rick of fine Meadow Hay; a Chariot, and Harness for a Pair of Horses; One Horse Chair and Harness, two Carts, and two fine Normandy Cows, &c. Which will be Sold by Auction, on the Premises, By Mr. Smith, On Monday the 26th, Wednesday the 28th, Thurs the 29th, and Friday the 30th of April; and on Monday the 3d of May, 1773. The Sale to begin each Day precisely at Eleven O'Clock. The Goods may be viewed from Friday the 23d, to the Time of Sale. Catalogues may be had at the Place of Sale, and at Mr. Smith's in Salisbury.
Smith, Mr., active 1773.Date: [1773]- Books
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The family pocket-book: or, fountain of true and useful knowledge. Containing The farrier's guide; or, the Horse Dissected: Being the most accurate, and satisfactory Account of the Diseases incident to that noble Beast, ever yet publish'd; with their Signs, Symptoms, Prognosticks and Cures in all Cases; a certain Cure for the Glanders, without trepanning; a never-failing Cure for the Grease; and another for broken-winded Horses: wrote by way of Dialogue between a Horse-Doctor and a Groom, by a late eminent Surgeon. The best Manner of breaking a Colt, of ordering a Horse of Pleasure, and ample Directions for the Management of a Race-Horse. Certain Method of preventing Chimneys from smoaking, let their Form or Situation be what they will; with a Print, the better to enable those concerned in building to prevent those great Inconveniencies for the future. The valuable Fire-Ball; by the Use of which, Families may make four or five Bushels of Coals go as far as forty. An excellent Way to bring Singing Birds to a very great Perfection, by that famous German, Lewis de Burgh. Extraordinary Method of Breeding Game-Cocks; the Manner of dieting and ordering them for Battle; sure Way of matching them: with a choice and valuable Secret for feeding a Cock four Days before fighting, communicated by a noble Lord, by which very extraordinary way of feeding, upwards of ninety Battles have been won out of a Hundred. Indian Way of marking on Silk, Linen, Woollen, &c. Curious Method of casting Urinc, and how Disorders are known by it. The Art of curling, dressing, or colouring Hair. Sir Hans Sloane's valuable Cure for Disorders of the Eyes. Certain Method of preventing the Teeth from being uneven, or bad, by Sig. Curzoni, Operator of the Teeth and Gums. Mons. Rouille's Lip-Salve. The Tea-Tree, and Manner of growing it in England. Instructions for mounting Fans. The Gardener's Legacy; containing all the Instructions necessary for the Cultivation of the Fruit, Flower, and Kitchen-Garden. The good housewife's daily companion; being a choice Collection of the most famous Physical Receipts, for the Cure of almost all Disorders of the human Body, taken chiefly from the late Sir Hans Sloane's, and the ingenious Dr. Lower's Works. Compiled after Thirty Years Experience, by Peregrine Montague, Gent.
Date: [1762?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Receipt Book of Jane Freestone
Date: 1843-1857Reference: MS.8207- Archives and manuscripts
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Orchard, Lewis
Date: 11/07/2009Reference: TP1/A/129Part of: One and Other Project- Archives and manuscripts
Veterinary: Animals
Date: c.1950- c.1990Reference: WF/M/I/PR/V1Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
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Episodes in the plague in Rome in 1656-1657. Etching.
Date: [between 1656 and 1659?]Reference: 10133i- Archives and manuscripts
Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936): patents
Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936.Date: 1881-1910Reference: MS.9217- Pictures
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Red apples representing healty living with a message about how AIDS patients can learn to live with the disease with the help of the assistance of the Diocesan Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Cologne eV AIDS-Hilfe Unit. Colour lithograph by Hüsch & Hüsch Aachen and Werbung.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674362i- Archives and manuscripts
JAV Bates. Box 3 Reels 1-51 +?.
Date: 1958-1961Reference: GC/179/C/2/3Part of: Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club- Archives and manuscripts
Press Adverts - Dips and Livestock Remedies
Cooper McDougall & Robertson LtdDate: Mar 1930 - 12 Jan 1943Reference: WF/C/M/GB/A/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Film
JAV Bates. .Box 3 Reels 1-51 +?.
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