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A History of the County of Oxford
… (later Home Farm). 113 Some women worked as dressmakers or straw-hat makers, and several were employed as domestic …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and many females are employed in the making of lace and straw-plat; wooden chairs are also made for exportation. The …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… almost forced (as the proverb says) to make bricks without straw. I have moved Mr. William Bladen, whom I have found the …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… longer labour under the severity of making brick without straw or starve. Signed, Wm. Penn. Endorsed, Recd. June 25, …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… half neither what's eaten), and also cabbages, onyons, and straw were; and were it not for our small vessells which …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… the tops of palmetto trees they make the above mentioned straw called plat, which is worked up in hats, for the use of …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… negro slaves as for the Egyptians to make bricks without straw. You have very probably been informed that great …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… be exposed to the Egyptian task of making bricks without straw and shall run much greater hazard than you could have …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… bedding although charged to the Nation's accounts, nor any straw for four years, etc. Presented 15th March, 1718/19. …