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A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… have been added. These branches employ together about 140 looms, the work being all supplied from Glasgow. Many …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… them abundantly from Cologne and Holland; but since engine-looms have been known, we make great quantities; and long … been in-formed that there has been above 1000 of these looms in Manchester only' [Houghton]. OED earliest date of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in corporate and market-towns to limit the number of looms and apprentices who might be employed by country … in bad times. Although there was still some grouping of looms in workshops, 22 the Weavers' Act may have been … statement from the same place in 1622 saying that 44 looms were idle and 800 persons in danger of starvation. 34 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… clothier, William Salmon (fl. 1404), the possessor of two looms, was also a benefactor to the town. 37 In the 16th … 1572) 41 owned a workshop containing at least two broad looms and engaged in a number of long-term transactions. 42 … (probate 1511) died possessed of a 'warping bar' and two looms, 50 John Baker (fl. 1551) was mayor, 51 and Henry …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… longer used as such in 1771. 257 In 1791 a shed to contain looms was erected at St. Mary's workhouse and in the 1790s a … They rose from 586 in 1830 to 661 in 1834. 498 A shed for looms was erected at the workhouse in 1791 and a contractor …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… of the town. Winchcombe is said to have had two hundred looms worked by two hundred men, each with a boy making … with the profits subsidizing twelve cloth-workers to keep looms whereby the poor might be set to work. The cloth thus …