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Calendar of Early Mayor's Court Rolls
… any circumstances; moreover they had destroyed many hand-looms after the death of workmen, when they ought to have …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… remaining; 10 so that there are now only a few looms continued in employment in this city; though there are … mixing Sir Richard Arkwright's level cotton twist to his looms of silk warps, by which contrivance he introduced to … compleated. In the year 1789 I saw in Mr. Callaway's silk looms, the richest and most beautiful piece of silk furniture …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on to a considerable extent. There are about 300 power-looms in the town, and from 1600 to 2000 hand-looms in the town and its immediate vicinity, employed in the …
Calendar, Committee for Compounding
… have also seized these lands, and the goods and heir-looms at Ashton Hall, settled by Thomas, Lord Gerard on his …
A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 10
… serge every year and took 16s. a week from his workers for looms and victuals, yet lived like a labourer and drank only … had a dyehouse there in 1863. 2 20. Boyd's 1870s power looms still working at Higher Flax Mills producing horsehair … for seating weaving. 5 In 1877 Boyd's installed 50 power looms, invented in 1872 by William Henderson, 6 in a new …