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The Environs of London
… allowed, and for a hat which shall have a narrow gold-lace 76, about 5l. The gentlemen to be chosen out of the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… was the Consequence? They invented among other Means the Lace Machinery; and I saw that [313] Population, which had … towards the Advancement of these Manufactures: in a Word, Lace-making proceeded at such an incredible Rate, that single … or nearly all, originated by working Men,) some of those Lace Machines were sold for more than 1,000. apiece; even …
Journal of the House of Lords
… for their own Use, except in Buckinghamshire, in the Lace Trade; there I think they may have been injured by the Lace Machines. Do you not think this has been an Evil of long …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Woman can support herself by working the Nottingham Net-lace Running, as they call it here. Nothing is ever given to …
Journal of the House of Lords
… not being in the same State? One great Cause is, that the Lace Trade was an exceedingly good one, and now a Woman must … from the Poverty of the Woman, she earns so little by her Lace. Then the Man gets a Rate of Wages which will procure … employed, do get Meat. Are the Women employed in making Lace, or any Business they can carry on in their own Houses? …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Parish for the Women and Children? We had, very recently, Lace-making for the Children, to a great Extent. Does that … It is very nearly stopped; it must stop. Urling's Lace takes away all the Profit. So that the Families depend …
Journal of the House of Lords
… upon that Estate earn any Money by Work of their own? Yes; Lace-making was very common in that Country. Has it ceased? … they go to the Shops at Malmesbury, and sell so much Lace for so much Clothes or Food. Those Clothes or that Food … in the Cultivation of this Half Acre than it is to make Lace. Supposing you had an Opportunity of affixing a Piece of …
Journal of the House of Lords
… 35. - - more than can find Employment, Demainbray, 36. - Lace-making there formerly, not now, being superseded by Urling's Lace, Demainbray, 38. - Land, Rent of, Variations in, … and Produce of it, Demainbray, 123 to 127. - Urling's Lace supersedes Lacemaking by Women and Children, Demainbray, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and is situated on the road from Oxford to Northampton. Lace is manufactured here. The living is a rectory, valued in …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… supported. The manufacture of cotton and tambour lace is carried on to a considerable extent, and a great …