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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William III
… also in clothing the army. He formerly traded in bone lace but has now left the same off, and proposes to trade no … his public entry; 18 footmen in red liveries with gold lace, and two gentlemen and six pages on horseback went … to Mr. Hill. [Copy.] I am sorry to see what effect our Lace Act hath had in those parts and I hope [the] thing is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… &c. The female cottagers are employed in making bone-lace. The living is a vicarage, endowed with one-third of the …
Cardiff Records
… mother's and a red Christning Mantle edg'd ab t a Silver Lace." William Turbervill of Wattrell in Radyr parish, … my Selfe"), executor and residuary legatee. Codicil: Best lace pinner to niece Margaret Morgan, spinster; as also one …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… kertell fringed and laide abowte the skirtes with lace." To Nicholas and Robert his brothers twenty shillings …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… by Dr. Edwin Freshfield and comprises some very beautiful lace, mostly of Greek workmanship. Remains of the Carmelite …
A History of the County of Oxford
… from the 10th century, when it was called hastinges lace, 114 and in the 1970s surviving traces of the dyke were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… supply of horses and cattle. The manufacture of thread-lace formerly constituted a principal branch of business, but …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of the females are employed in the manufacture of bone-lace. The market, which was held on Friday, and a fair on the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Exeter, IN GRAIN, GREY, ITALIANO, KNOTTED, LINE, LIVERY LACE, MANX, NARROW, POINT, ready spun, RUSSEL, SINGLE, St … GIRDLE, GIRTH, GLOVE.HAT, HOSE, INKLE, JACKET, KIRTLE, LACE, MITT, NIGHT CAP, PETTICOAT, (KNIT), QUALITY, REIN, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and the Grand Junction canal passes through the parish. Lace-making employs some of the inhabitants. The living is a … 600 acres. The inhabitants are partly employed in making lace. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the … that of Henry Ashton, Esq.; Beaconsfield House, of Ambrose Lace, Esq.; and the seats of John Crosthwaite, Esq., and Mrs. …