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A History of the County of Oxford
… supplemented family income by laundering, dressmaking, or bonnet and straw-hat making. 64 Two or more coal merchants …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… CORN, BASIN, BASKET, BAYS, BEAM, BIRCH, BOMBAZINE, BONE, BONNET, BOOTS, BOTTLE, BOTTOM, BRASS WIRE, BREECHES, BUCKLE, …
Old and New London
… emerodes; his night-cap garnished with stone, but his bonnet was so rich with jewels that few men could value them. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the manufacture of pillow-lace, and in preparing straw-bonnet plat. In the reign of Edward II., the inhabitants …
A New History of London
… They suspended near the pillory a jack boot, a Scots bonnet, and an axe; and after suffering them to hang for some … off the top of the boot, and burned it together with the bonnet with great triumph. In the mean time a gentleman …
A New History of London
… that "whosoever shall wear silk in or upon his hat, bonnet, girdle, scabbard, hose, shoes, or spur leather, shall …
Broadwell Parish: Holwell
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… 19th-century occupations included dressmaking and straw bonnet-making, and in 1861 there were two schoolmistresses. …
Survey of London
… been assumed by the French Government architect, Patrice Bonnet. The building was completed early in 1938 (Plate 114b). In 1939 a newspaper reported that 'M. Bonnet is under medium height, bearded, and beams with genial … that the L. C. C. would never pass some of his plans, M. Bonnet was undismayed. He came to London and saw the …
Survey of London
… men's fashions, and was as notably the place to go for a bonnet as it is now for a shirt or a tie. The 55 shops of … remarked on the use of upper chambers over 'a friendly bonnet shop' for purposes of prostitution: men of position …