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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II, 1683
… company of foot with three or four hundred white waistcoats to meet him with white rods in their hands. This …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles II
… Most of the clothes are too fine, as for instance, laced waistcoats from 14 s. to 20 s., and worsted stockings from 4 …
Old and New London
… this orfery, are divers miners in canvas breeches, red waistcoats, and red caps, bearing spades, pickaxes, twibills, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… for furnishings. In the 1680s they were ordering ready cut WAISTCOATs and COUNTERPANEs. The fashionable quality of …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… including 7 s. a year for 'two little jumps, coats or waistcoats' for poor children of Chorley, and 8 s. for their …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The manufacture of fancy silk and worsted goods, for waistcoats, trowsers, and ladies' dresses, is carried on to a …