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A History of the County of Lancaster
… found about 1850, with a floreated cross and pair of shears, inscribed 'Hic jac[e]t Amicia filia Johan[n]is …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
… Court of Pie-powder was held at this time at the 'Hand and Shears' public-house there; 16 a house which still stands … Whittington was next door in Cloth Fair, and the Hand and Shears in Middle Street (both already referred to) is only a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… William Hanleygh, tucker, possessed a press, a pair of shears, and twelve pairs of what were probably hand-frames … itself most readily to carving in stonethe long flatended shears with which the nap on the cloth was shorn. 159 The … vii. 106; P.C.C. 22 Horne; for a good drawing of the shears see W.N. & Q. v. 197. e.g. Cal. Close, 131318, 219; C. …