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The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… shall give us leave, make further way for the vent of cloth in foreign parts and at home, so do hereby require you … in favour of the clothier[s], both for the vent of their cloth and for moderation of the price of wools (of which we … of their cloths at under-prices, and the great quantity of cloth that doth lie dead upon their hands; and they live …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… has some panelling and a series of 17thcentury painted cloth hangings, perhaps Flemish. 82 The only real estate …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… exclusively, applied to the most delicately woven COTTON CLOTH or fine CALICO, although Sir Hans Sloane writing in … term was used elliptically to represent 'mustard coloured' CLOTH, as 'v yardes of northen musterd at iijs iiijd ye …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… and four new black Balls, and lining the Inside with Cloth, 1 10s. These are repairs to the Duke of Lauderdale's …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Bath to Cheltenham. The manufacture of superfine woollen-cloth is carried on in several establishments, affording …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of two measures. The first was as a measure of length for CLOTH and stood for 2¼ INCH or the sixteenth part of a YARD. … Found described as CORDED, FINE, INDIA Found describing CLOTH Found used to make BREECHES, WAISTCOAT Sources: Acts, … STRIPED, Thin, Torn, WROUGHT, YARD long Found describing CLOTH Found made of CANVAS, DAMASK, DIAPER, FLAXEN, HEMP, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Nailworth owed its development almost entirely to the cloth industry; the steep hillsides, which were thickly … one or two farms, lying in its western part. Mills and the Cloth Industry. Nailsworth parish included the sites of at … the Nailsworth stream. The earliest evidence found of the cloth industry at Nailsworth was in 1448 when John the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… its individuality chiefly to the establishment of the cloth industry and the growth of religious nonconformity. The …