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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… Glasgow houses; the principal articles are tartans, linsey-woolsey stuffs, and fancy shawls. The machinery of the mills …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… were presented and two at Ealing, John Penruddock and Woolsey, wife of George Brent. 36 Brent was described as a …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… as my lord cardinal have. It seems by this that Cardinal Woolsey had obtained some grant of lands belonging to this …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… (4) You are to deliver the three pieces of white Lyndsey woolsey sent to William Thompson from Scotland to be dyed and returned and the 56 yards of Lynsy woolsey sent to Bartho. Gyles for the like purpose : security …
A Survey of London
… the yere 1529. Cardinall Campeius the Legat, with Cardinal Woolsey sate at the said blacke friers, where before them as … a parliament in the Blacke Friers, in the which Cardinall Woolsey was condemned in the premunire 13: this house valued …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… Woodfall, Mr., the printer Wooldridge and Kelly, Messrs. Woolsey, Mr., of Grenada Woolwich, disaffected shipwrights …
Calendar of Home Office Papers (George III)
… at Grenada as a planter and merchant in company with Mr. Woolsey.Whitehall. 20 Feb. Ireland, v. 448, No. 34. 513. Lord …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… sorted to make the grobin fine, grobin second, and grobin woolsey, for among the rags will be some linsey-woolsey, which the dirt makes indiscoverable, till they are … Not found in the OED Found described as FINE, Second, WOOLSEY Sources: Houghton. Gross ginger [gros ginger] In the …