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19th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… their trade in such a sort as intolerable. In dying black silk, gain half in half. Committee desired to have a message … Upper House. SIR EDWARD VILLIERS. The fault more in the silk men than the dyers. They make them dye it so. To have … the Lord Mayor to take into consideration the abuse of the silk dyers for heavy-dyed silk. Resolved, a copy of the bill …
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of an increase of subsidy of 3d. [ blank] upon raw silk not entered into the Book of Rates. But answered to this … impositions on currants and increase of custom on raw silk. Allege that there raised on this silk an increase of 3d. upon a pound of silk not set down in …
4th March 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… of Naples. He was cut off from 60,000 crowns yearly by silk from Bisa, denied their promised assistance to divers …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Newby Hall Blinds for windows curiously painted on canvas, silk or wire. [Temple Newsam Exhib., 1976, 21; GL, City …
City of London Livery Companies Commission. Report
… photography, pottery, and porcelain, printing, silk dyeing, silk manufacture, steel manufacture, sugar manufacture, …
The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book, 1462-1511
… woollen cloth, laces, corses [bands?], ribbons, fringes of silk and of thread, threaded laces, thrown silk or silk in any wise embroidered, golden laces, tires …
St Martin-in-the-Fields
… Coarse linen from Locrenan in Bretagne. Plain woven silk stuff. vide n. 1, p. 259. i.e. Gradualsvolumes …