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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… manufacture of sheeting, linen, towelling, sailcloth, and sackcloth, was introduced about the beginning of the present …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… Drawing Book. His name is recorded stencilled on the sackcloth under a chair of late 18th-century date. [D; poll …
A Dictionary of London
… sometimes "Friars of the Sack," or Penance, because of the sackcloth they wore. A branch of the Franciscans (Newcourt, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… worked at the linen factory at Bourton. 50 Dressed flax, sackcloth, twine, and shoe thread were produced until the …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… the sale of his jewels; "that no man should wear for him sackcloth nor long beard," &c. He then continues: "It is to …
A History of the County of Essex
… from London, walked through Colchester barefoot in sackcloth and ashes. 2 By c. 1660 the Quakers in Colchester …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and tan-yards; and the manufacture of coarse towelling and sackcloth is pursued. The importance of forming a great …
Two Early London Subsidy Rolls
… in All Hallows Bread St. Adam was probably a maker of sackcloth. John de Colewelle 1311-12 ADB 1987 (son of Stephen …