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A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… in several classes. His sister Rebecca taught infants and needlework to the girls. The school moved to Yeovil in 1697. …
Survey of London
… likewise, rare cabinets of pietra-commessa, a landscape of needlework, formerly presented by the Dutch to King Charles …
A History of the County of Northampton
… were devoted to reading, writing, arithmetic and plain needlework, even if in other respects it was run as a lace …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… whence its name. It was furnished with apparels, i.e., needlework ornamentations. 5 A narrow band worn over the neck …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… ( unum supellectulum scaccatum) and ornamented with needlework ( punctatum 16, curtyns, a gold ring with ruby, a …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… education, and 3 d. was also payable for girls learning needlework. The boys, as was generally the case, were removed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in the 1720s included writing, accounts, and Latin, with needlework if the master had a suitably qualified wife; it … writing, and arithmetic, the girls (as was usual) learned needlework, knitting, and 'habits of useful industry', the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… as a BOX to contain instruments and materials for NEEDLEWORK. However, some early examples in the Dictionary …
A History of the County of Sussex
… at the corner of North Street and Chapel Road in 1824 when needlework and occasionally straw-plaiting were taught. 18 In …
A History of the County of Somerset
… original 'Bath White,' so named by Lewin, 'from a piece of needlework executed at Bath, by a young lady, from a specimen …