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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… bound to carry baskets of earth to fortify walls, and make buttons for our livings, as they make their brags do in their …
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… 1582 suggests an alternative. The entry reads: 'Aglets or Buttons for _ Caps of Copper' [Rates (1582)]. This suggests, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… GOLD, presumably a form of BRASS; often used to make BUTTONS or SPOONs, and used as a cheap substitute in GOLD …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of that area were then said to be much employed in making buttons. 50 It was common for women and girls in the township …