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A History of the County of Stafford
… of weekly pay from the borough should wear a badge of red cloth in the shape of a castle on pain of losing the pay; 208 … that all clothing given to the poor should be of blue cloth; 214 the colour was fixed in 1742 as green for men and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… be spent each Michaelmas on gowns and petticoats of blue cloth which were to be worn by the inmates whenever they were …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… weavers, fullers, and dyers. 26 In the early modern period cloth making was probably the town's principal industry. … son, Miles Beale (d. 1713), 2 had racks for drying cloth in the grounds of the Court House. 3 In the 1680s there … industry was in decline by the early 18th century. Few cloth workers were recorded after the 1720s, and the clothier …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… in the 17th century and the early 18th when tanneries, cloth making, and the nearby Ellbridge iron furnace all …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… five boys. Timothy Nourse also gave 2 10 s. a year to buy cloth for old people, to which his widow Lucy (later Lucy …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… and craftsmen supplying goods to the surrounding villages. Cloth making continued in the town into the early modern …
Old and New London
… of Blackfriars Bridge. The scaffold was lined with black cloth, and near the drop were five plain coffins, and a block … to death with a rogue named Blueskin, for stealing cloth from a Mr. Kneebone, a draper in the Strand, to whom …