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A History of the County of Leicester
… or street. 127 The earlier building parallel to New Walk had been of good quality but a group of streets of much … had been built on privately owned land between the New Walk and London Road. The hosiery merchants, who occupied the streets laid out c. 1814 at the lower end of New Walk, were beginning to build factories and warehouses on …
A History of the County of Leicester
… in it. Of the rest over a half were within a few hours' walk of their birthplace, and only a few individuals (no more … the corporation proposed in 1785 to establish a public walk for the people of Leicester, they should choose a strip … land which started from this area of the town. 580 The New Walk, as it came to be called, began at the junction of a …
A History of the County of Leicester
… sugar and grocery amounted to 5 7 s. 4 d., three pieces of broad russet to 3 18 s., a piece of English worsted to 2, and … 2. 1591 9 17 7 13 16 1 6 'Broadweaver'. Looms: 1 damask, 1 broad, 4 narrow. 3. 1593 9 0 0 2 1 4 50 17 2 6 Has weaving …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… in the gild-hall, which is very fair, and hath a perfect broad seal of red wax of this King's hanging to it. Ricardus …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… is still extant in the gild-hall at Norwich, with his broad seal of green wax still appendant thereto; 2 it bears …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… the original of which is now in the gild-hall, with the broad seal of green wax, very fair: 35 in this he grants … city 37 which is now extant in the gild-hall, with the broad seal of green wax hanging thereto; by this charter he …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… pleasure; and also to erect a gate with a bridge 20 foot broad thereto adjoining, which I take to be Bishop's-gate and … and their rights settled, and though it is under the broad seal, and is reckoned and numbered among the Charters, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… branch with them, namely, the making of what we now call broad-cloth, or the art of clothing. Their introduction here …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… on their petition, had an exemplification under the broad seal of green wax, now hanging thereto, of the last … errour is numbered among their Charters, 28 29 it having a broad seal of green wax hanging to it. They were settled by …