HIMLEY, (Staffordshire) S.W. of Wolverhampton, formerly bel. to the Ld. Dudley. In this p. there is a blade-mill, at
which, scythes, reaping-hooks, axes, hatchets, and the like tools, having been forged by the white-smiths, are ground to a
fine edge. All these instruments are made of iron first, softened with fat unctuous bodies, as butter, oil, wax, suet, &c.
for that use, as irons for carts, plowshares, horse-locks, and shoes, nails and buckles, are of iron, hardened by art.