cockets

He says he dreams of nothing but cockets, [13] and dockets, and drawbacks, and other jargon words of the custom-house.

The Journal to Stella 2003

And vpon receipt of the sayde bonde to giue them out their cockets or other warrants to lade out and receiue in the same their goods by vertue hereof without any disturbance.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And so he left me to see that the mate had signed all his lighter bills, shouting to the captain not to forget his cockets at Gravesend.

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

And so he left me to see that the mate had signed all his lighter bills, shouting to the captain not to forget his cockets at Gravesend.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

And so he left me to see that the mate had signed all his lighter bills, shouting to the captain not to forget his cockets at Gravesend.

Richard Carvel — Volume 05 Winston Churchill 1909

Goods carried coastwise, indeed, require certificates or coast cockets.

II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society 1909

Do not entertain so weak an imagination as that your registers and your bonds, your affidavits and your sufferances, your cockets and your clearances, are what form the great securities of your commerce.

I. On Conciliation with America 1906

He says he dreams of nothing but cockets, [13] and dockets, and drawbacks, and other jargon words of the custom-house.

The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

And so he left me to see that the mate had signed all his lighter bills, shouting to the captain not to forget his cockets at Gravesend.

Richard Carvel Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1899

Such, for instance, is the spirit of the laws, that, although you cannot directly prove bribery or smuggling in a hundred cases where they have been committed, you can prove whether the proper documents, proper cockets, proper entries in regular offices have been observed and performed, or not.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763