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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… blankets, a gown furred with Gris, 6 two hoods, one of silk and the other of paristhred, 7 silver spoons, &c. Lapsed …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… to Anne, daughter of Thomas Tewson her cousin, her red silk quilt and one of her small gold chains or necklaces; to …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… shillings, borrowed money, he leaves a certain parcel of silk lying in his mother's house, worth twenty-three pounds …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… goods, chiefly fustians and thicksets. The manufacture of silk has been introduced at Devizes; and the parishes of … the neighbouring linen manufacture of Dorsetshire, and the silk manufacture of Bruton, in Somersetshire. Ale of a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the Ascension in addition to various cloths of gold and silk, some 500 ells of 'tele de Wilton'. 19 When the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… by two windows at the N. end. The walls, the yellow silk lining of which has recently been reinstated, are broken …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1713 41 but the most important occupations were wool, silk, and linen weaving. Broadweavers and woollen weavers … 44 A silkweaver was recorded in 1677. 45 In 1813 a silk mill was put up for sale and in the 1830s there was a silk house in Church Street operated by Messrs. Wilmott. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the last few years has greatly declined: a branch of the silk manufacture has been introduced. The market is on … manufacture at present carried on are those of paper and silk, for the former of which there are two large mills in … the Church of England, is decorated with hangings of blue silk richly embroidered; the chair and canopy of state are …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… pulpit made by Prior Silkstede, with the twisted skeins of silk in its tracery which he used as a play on his name. …