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A History of the County of Lancaster
… but there was a threatening demonstration against power-looms in 1826. 83 In 17978 the Royal Preston Volunteers were …
The records of St. Bartholomew's priory & St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield
Survey of London
… floorboards of the houses, perhaps to deaden the sound of looms overhead. 19 The houses were not, however, constructed …
Historical Collections of Private Passages of State
… the Yarn into his Custody, and converted it into my Lord's Looms. He doth not know what Quantities, but it was a great … must be occasioned by some other Means than this. That his Looms should be an occasion of starving so many Men, he … strange, for in Truth, the Value of Cloth made in those Looms in a Year (which he left his Tenants to manage) was …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely