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Register of the Freemen of the City of York
… sawyer Robert Gill, shoemaker, son of William Gill, flax and hempdresser William Smith, baker, son of William …
Register of the Freemen of the City of York
… whitesmith John Gainforth, whitesmith Robert Carr, flax dresser Per Patres Henricus Campleshon, jr., mercator, … fil. Johannis Hays, blacksmith Oswald Woodhouse, flax dresser, fil. Roberti Woodhouse, joyner Willelmus … tayler, fil. Josephi Greenup, tayler Joh. Brocklebank, flax dresser, fil. Johannis Brocklebank, labourer Johannes …
Journal of the House of Lords
… 140 - - 352 12,759 169 3,954 976 19,777 13 3,292 - - Hemp, Flax and Twine 759 7,558 3,135 25,130 1,273 8,812 1,072 8,911 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… George Brown was one of the pioneers in a movement to grow flax in the Amesbury area, and organized a sufficient guaranteed acreage to open a flax factory in 1847. The factory was burnt down in 1861, but …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… it proceeds close by the corner of the Northumberland Flax Spinningmill, and, crossing the Ouseburn, joins the …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… living. At the ordination of 1252 the tithes of gardens, flax, and hemp, as well as a share of the altarage, were …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the limits of the borough. Great quantities of hemp and flax are raised in the vicinity, and a manufacture of home …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Carder Green on Census Day 1851 included a linen weaver, a flax dresser, a clothespeg maker, and two hawkers, while a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… spinners of Darley (Derb.). They converted the mill to flax spinning and erected a warehouse. 57 In 1837 the … as lessees, and in 1850 Bowden Dakeyne worked both flax and silk at the mill. He still ran it in 1864, but it …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… good profit not only by their fishing trade but by hemp, flax, pitch, tar, potashes, soap, ashes, masts, pipestaves, …