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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… corporation. [ page, draft.] [March 25.] 16. Capt. Thomas Button to. Annexed is the form of the grant required. Pray …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… 1682, we offer to your consideration (1) that Sir Thomas Button wintered at Port Nelson; (2) that Luke Fox set up a …
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… This suggests, that in this context, the aglet was a BUTTON, possibly made of COPPER, which was sewn on to the top …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… workers. OED earliest date of use: 1440 Found used to make BUTTON, fruit dish, OE, SALT, SPANGLE, SPOON Found describing …
Old and New London
… artificers settled here. Here lived shoemakers, tailors, button-makers, goldsmiths, pursemakers, drapers, and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and Charlton worth 4 2 s. 6 d. In 1270 Bishop William Button II of Bath and Wells 7 cited Robert Abbot of Lonlay …
A History of the County of Stafford
… there was a brickyard east of Heath House. 48 In 1601 a button maker lived at Stonieway, apparently near Hardings … a stream issuing from a mine at Blue Hills was used to dye button moulds, and poor people of that area were then said to … was common for women and girls in the township to work as button makers in the earlier 19th century, and some of them …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Summerhill is dated 1757 and was built for John Gaunt, a button merchant. Edge Top Farm to the south-east is dated … as a hawker and pedlar at his death in 1791. 18 A button merchant, William Wood, lived in Hollinsclough … in 1769, and Ezekiel Wood of Colshaw was described as a button maker in 1764. 19 John Gaunt of Summerhill, recorded …