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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons
… Hanner's Speech. The next Day a Petition of the Clothiers, Combers, Weavers, and many Thousands concern'd in the Woollen …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… small tract and very nigh the sea is contained above 1,000 combers, whose masters is mostly smugglers, and according to … one week's time four stone, and that multiplied by 1,000 combers produces 4,000 stone a week comb'd up of our … there is scarce a soldier to be found, where all these combers do smuggle as affores d. Proposes to place troops at …