Crown Estates

Various UK government authorities and especially The Crown Suppliers were already "fire conscious" and further extended the use of fabrics of reduced flammability, barrier fabrics and barrier foams, with high resilience PU foams in their purchase specifications for upholstered furniture and bed assemblies for use in the Crown Estate, public buildings, hospitals etc. Typically, products were required to meet cigarette and No. 5 wooden crib sources see Table I when tested to Crown Suppliers Tests (5), (6). ... 

Crown Estates hold records of all permitted subsea services, although the exact position may not be defined the records will give an indication of the presence of subsea services in the vicinity. 

For information on the Crown Estate, see http //www.thecrownestate.co.uk/energy/ofFshore-wind-energy. 

Offshore Wind Cost Reduction—Pathways Study, 2012.. The Crown Estate, London, UK. 

BVG Associates. A Guide to an Offshore Wind Farm. Published on behalf of The Crown Estate. 

For four more years he made his pilgrimage. In this affair," he wrote, I spent upwards of eleven thousand crowns, and in fact, I was reduced to such poverty that I had but little money left, and yet I was more than sixty-two years of age. Soon he met another monk, who showed him a recipe for whitening pearls. The pearls were etched in the urine of an uncorrupted youth, coated with alum, and left to dry on what remained of the corrosive. Then they were heated in a mixture of mercury and fresh bitch s milk. Bernard watched the process, and behold—the whitest pearls he had ever seenl He was now ready to listen to this skilled adept. Upon security of the last remnant of his once-great estate, he persuaded a merchant to lend him eight thousand florins. 

Compounding his problem was the Knights Templar Order. It had absorbed a very large number of feudal estates and removed them from crown revenue. In desperation, Philippe IV increased taxes, devalued the currency and ruthlessly expropriated the assets of Jews and Italians. 

Crown Industrial Estate Oxford Street Burton-on-Trent Staffordshire. England DEI 4 SPG... 

Excise, a tax on manufactured goods before they went to sale, had first been imposed in 1643. It covered an expanding range of essential goods, like beer and meat (though not bread). It spawned a horde of excise officers, the hope being it would finance the war. But by 1645 assessments, fines on delinquents estates and sale of crown-fee farm rents overtook it. 

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