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A History of the County of Essex
… decrease was due mainly to an increase in the number of women recorded as working. A shoemaker's business recorded in … number of servants was 14 in 1891. In 1851 as many as 44 women worked as strawplaiters and 1 as a milliner or … of workers in White Colne had fallen to 13. In 1861 eleven women were 'tambour workers' or lace-makers, an industry …
A History of the County of Essex
… 6", Essex XVII. NW. (1881 edn.). Rep. Com. Children and Women in Agric. [4068-1], p. 158, H.C. (1867-8), xvii. … to Destruction, 193-4. Rep. Com. on Children and Women in Agric. 158; E.R.O., Acc. A9441 (uncat.): par. …
Old and New London
… covered with old boots and shoes; old clothes, both men's, women's, and children's; new lace, for edgings, and a variety … flaming tartanthese things, mixed with the hues of the women's garments, spotted and striped, certainly present a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of 1000 to be expended in clothes for 24 poor men and women. Whitfield (St. Mary) WHITFIELD ( St. Mary), a parish, …
Old and New London
… into the mle. From every den and crib red-faced, bloated women hurry with fire-forks, spits, cudgels, pokers, and … schism, and estimates its adherents at about 200, but more women than men. Grindal says they held meetings and … is described by Ward, in his "London Spy." Both men and women, it appears, were whipped on their naked backs before …
Survey of London
… in all directions, containing many sculptures of men and women, children and birds and monsters, and other strange … And all Wives and Daughters of the Nobility and their Women that attend them may passe through this Chamber, and …
Survey of London
… the joust, or where a ball is to be held, what beautiful women are to be at court." 62 Visits of other ambassadors and … shall have Power to purge Whitehall from all Papists all Women whose Husbands are now, or have been, in Service … was they should all departe thence to Somersett house. The women howled and lamented but all in vaine, for the yeomen of …
Old and New London
… the slightest tincture of pedantry. Of the too celebrated women whose faces we still admire on the walls of Hampton … The king sat there chatting and toying with three women, whose charms were the boast and whose vices were the …
Old and New London
… Whitehall, to forty-eight poor men, and forty-eight poor women, boiled beef and shoulders of mutton, and small bowls … the Yeomen of the Guard, distributed to seventyfive poor women and seventy-five poor men, being as many as the King … woollen cloth, linen, shoes and stockings, to the men and women, and a cup of wine to drink the King's health." The …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… crimes, murdering about 40 Europeans including some women and children which even insurgents might have …
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