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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… quantities to the London market. The manufacture of lace and silk-stockings, and the weaving of shag, are carried …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… and here it was probably an abbreviation for CHAIN LACE, as in 'Gold and Silver thred; w'th Silver Chains and … (1679)] and 'fifty three ounces of silver & golde Lace Chaine & Twist at Two shillings Nynepence p ounce' … Rates, Tradecards. References: Trinder (1992). Chain lace [cheyne lase; cheyne lace; chaine lase; chaine lace] The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… but it has been almost superseded by the manufacture of lace, for which several large works have been built within a …
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham
… silkes, and lawne? Embroideries, feathers, fringes, lace, When every limbe takes like a face. One anecdote …
A History of the County of Essex
… 1891 there were only 48. Women worked chiefly as tambour lace-makers, 17 in 1861, 23 in 1871, and 19 in 1891; others …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… "a black stitched taffeta Polony coat laced with silver lace," with a fan, a velvet pincushion, two looking-glasses, …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… to her brother, Edward Nicholas. Sends him boot-hose and lace for a band; the best lace is half-a-crown a yard and the other eighteenpence. 71. …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… employed in spinning and making cloth, thread and bone lace, and many other things. Pray that rough flax and hemp …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… and retaining of apprentices, especially by bone lace makers, have been the causes of great poverty. Pray them …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I
… deposed to having made an experiment in melting old silver lace on his own account. Abbott deposed apparently to the …