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The Manuscripts of Shrewsbury and Coventry Corporations [etc]
… in colouring defects by stretching defective cloths upon tenters, a thing forbidden by Act of Parliament, therefore not only the use of tenters in stretching cloths or cottons shall not be … to stretch cloths, with the heads and lower bars of the tenters and all other engines and means for straining of …
Survey of London
… to be wholly of brick, lay partly open to the nineteen tenters in the possession of a Mr. Seed which lay between … in Bell Lane. 5 In 1736 the use of ground south of the tenters was included in a lease of houses in Bell Lane to two …
Survey of London
… of the plot, fronting Brick Lane. Behind it lay two half tenters measuring 278 feet east to west and 34 feet north to … the house with twelve hearths occupied by him in ye Tenters in 16745. 204 In 1750 the three houses occupying …
Survey of London
… tenter ground south of this range, containing houses and tenters leased to Rawlins Tryan (or Rowland Tryon), houses …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in empty spaces, there were going up those 'racks', or 'tenters' as they would more often be called in the north and … of a wholly new fulling-mill in 14212, together with tenters for stretching the cloth out to dry, for which were … 2 a year to Thomas Knight and his wife for life, with the tenters, the mill-pond, weir, and fisheries, and it continued …