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Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… plan for same for the coming year by offering prizes of looms, &c. The mystery of whitening or bleaching, … branch of manufacture, to enable her to purchase a few looms to begin the making of thread stockings. Detail their …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… the manufacturers in the best method of mounting diaper looms and working figured linen. He has accordingly … who are still alive, to enable them to mount diaper looms, and 20 l. to the foreigner to allow him to return …
Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers
… Hope's farm for raising and dressing flax, and purchasing looms and a Dutch press for folding and pressing linen at …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… have at their own expense erected several plain looms for weaving linen which are valued at 30 l. each and other looms called Estilles for making fine linen in imitation of … to encourage the said manufacture and to accept the said looms and Estills as stock at the said value and to pay 8 per …
A History of the County of Essex
… saying that he had given the men work and even lent them looms, and accusing three of them of being involved in … more than five weavers, or the use of more than two broad looms and one narrow or three narrow looms and one broad. Its failure to halt the trend is …
A History of the County of York
… now made their living from the former. Only four woollen looms remained, and those stood mostly unused for lack of … of a total sum of £ 1,015. 87 Whatever the decline of its looms and its ocean-going ships, Tudor York remained a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of stockings were woven by the inhabitants; but only a few looms are now employed. The living is a discharged vicarage, …