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A History of the County of Leicester
… web industry in Leicester dates from 1839, when Caleb Bedells, an inventor in the hosiery firm of Wheeler & Co. of … the new industry. 4 Whereas in 1846 only Briggs and Bedells had been manufacturing elastic web, by 1861 there …
Scriveners' company common paper 1357-1628
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… to Sir John Digby, 6 s. 8 d. Ric. Wotton and Th. Panatry, bedells of University of Oxford, towards repairs of highways …