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Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… l. laid out in 1728, to encourage undertakers to fit up bleaching fields, has had the desired result. On the 2,000 l. … in spinning linen yarn, in working the cloth and in bleaching it yet there are a great many inventions and …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… a warehouse for the sale of cambrics, encouraging bleaching fields and whitening low priced cloth with kelp, …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… a more rapid development. In the matter of the process of bleaching or whitening the Commissioners have failed of … by your Majesty in the year 1728 to encourage to set up bleaching or whitening fields by giving them a premium of 50 … 300 l. to Alexander Christie to enable him to erect a bleaching or whitening field for low priced cloth at Perth, …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… school. Propose to set up 4 such stations. With regard to bleaching, Andrew and William Grays have been financially … the Journals of their proceedings in the practice of bleaching for 3 years past, and are instructing such masters …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… offering prizes of looms, &c. The mystery of whitening or bleaching, particularly the finer sort of cloth, continues to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… addition. At Dunscar ( which see) are the old established bleaching-works of Messrs. George and James Slater; and there …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… to 450 persons. Two establishments are conducted for the bleaching of yarn, in which is apparatus for the manufacture …
Calendar of State Papers Relating to English Affairs in the Archives of Venice