The sheriff of Norfolk had power to search for and seize any sound, dry, and ungreen wood which he could find, and send the same to the Fletchers or arrow makers to be made into sheaves, tipped with steel heads according to a pattern in the Tower of London.

In the early 19th century the dandy-roller was invented to impart watermarks on machine-made paper.

He maintained a posture of scrupulous disinterest in Balkan affairs […]

books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses