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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… to enter upon the shop of his dwelling-house and take his cloth at cost price, and to enjoy the same during the … Hugh is to pay to her executors the value of the aforesaid cloth. To Jane his wife he leaves all his other tenements, …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… vallance" and a border for a "cupbord," a "courte cupbord cloth of Tissewe," 12 all her wearing linen, two black … Mr. Earwaker (vol. ii. pp. 105, 109). 1 Co. Worcester. 1 Cloth of tissue was a peculiarly rich stuff, another variety of cloth of gold. The very thin smooth paper which still goes by …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… and fellowship aforesaid to yearly bring their best cloth to lie upon his "herse," 19 and bestow certain gifts to … nor from any process of manufacture known as "steeling" cloth. A suggestion that the Easterlings were probably the … by Foster, Porter & Co., Limited, on lease. 1 Painted cloth as a species of hangings for rooms was cloth or canvas …
Survey of London
… St Helena Place was populated by 'rough women wearing sack cloth instead of stuff skirts', and that Wilmington Place was …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was established. Wool was bought or taken in exchange for cloth direct from neighbouring farmers. Part of the cloth produced was retained by the women and part sold. Difficulties were experienced in disposing of the cloth and the project was not at first successful. 158 In …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… called after that town are now produced at Wilton. Fancy cloth waistcoatings also formed, at one time, a considerable … extensive woollen manufactures, chiefly of superfine broad-cloth, kerseymere, and fancy cloths. At Mere and in its … bequeathed 7 bushels of wheat and 100 ells of linen and cloth, to be provided by the possessor of her estates, on …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in Wilton comparable to the growth of the great cloth industry of Salisbury, and no evidence of any growth at …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… From the 16th century onwards the relative importance of cloth-making was in all probability much greater than it had … largely dominated by rising families of clothiers. The cloth was still fulled in the mill in Washern acquired by the … 1 and to it the weavers of the neighbourhood brought their cloth to be fulled. Net profits were reckoned at about 6 a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… gave information that 10 butchers, 18 fishmongers, 7 cloth merchants, 5 merchants dealing in wax and other …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… sum of 100 marks, together with 700 ells of linen cloth; 6 subsequent confirmations were made by Henry III, …