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Old and New London
… is, too, an admixture of men's 'button-boots,' with drab-cloth legs; and of a few red, yellow, and russet-coloured …
Survey of London
… of "ye Lodgings over Whitehall Gate, formerly the Green Cloth Office." 19 The Porter's Lodge was on the ground floor … lodgings by October, 1678, 170 to occupy a house in Green Cloth Yard on a site granted to him in the previous year. … roome, heretofore the fane roome, to bee hung with black cloth." (P.R.O., L.C. 5/1651st August, 1687.) "That it shall …
Survey of London
… an extraordinary Crimson embroidered Velvet Bed, Cloth of State, Chairs and Stools suitable, worth very many …
Old and New London
… maskers, all in garments like shepherds, made of fine cloth of gold and fine crimson satin paned, and caps of the … banquet-wise covered, my Lord Cardinal sitting under the cloth of estate, and there having his service all alone; and … newly apparelled. Then the King took his seat under the cloth of estate, commanding no man to remove, but sit still …
Old and New London
… distributed to them shoes, stockings, linen and woollen cloth, and leathern bags, with one penny, twopenny, … of which the silver pennies were distributed, and woollen cloth, linen, shoes and stockings, to the men and women, and …
Old and New London
… black velvet (the other barges being covered with black cloth), the top adorned with plumes of black feathers, and … Room, in which it was placed, was hung with black cloth, and lighted with wax tapers placed in sconces on the …
Magna Britannia
… in great repute. There is an extensive manufactory of sail-cloth, established in the year 1786, and some large …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… soft and clear, is excellent for whitening linen-cloth. This stream, which in parts runs between woody banks, …