The General Fund Court also took exception in 1756 to the habit of 'some Trades' of booking 'dry-handed' masters without taking anything for the general fund. Dry-handed members were those who did not practise a craft; they included men of all sort of professions and craftsmen of any trade except the one they happened to be entering.

The plants can either be sold individually in the 3 inch pots as Valentine favors , or several may be panned together in larger pots

Something was moving to and fro there, very quietly; every now and then it tapped against the wall, or started on its movements with a faint metallic ringing, like the movement of keys on a split-ring.

Much worse then the former; for who that is experienced in those partes and knoweth not that the Oneales are neerely alied unto the Mac Oneales of Scotland, and to the Earle of Argill, from whom they use to have all ther succors of those Scottes and Redshanks?