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A History of the County of Hampshire
… linen cloth, velvets, mercery, haberdashery, grocery, woollen cloth, silks, 'lattus ware' or 'linsey wolsey,' … hosier might occupy another trade except it be selling of woollen cloth only. 94 The fishmongers of the city were …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… 15th century it is possible that the still active cloth manufacture of the soke, considerable in proportion to its …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… large premises. The place has been long famous for its manufacture of iron and steel goods of every description, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… quarries of freestone and flint, used for building. The manufacture of woollen-cloth was formerly carried on to a considerable …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the lead-mines, but some of them are engaged in the cotton manufacture; in the town and its immediate neighbourhood are three establishments for the manufacture of small-wares, and about 1500 quarters of malt …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… crop, planted to provide lamp oil and also used in wool manufacture, totally lost. 50 Damage on a similar scale …