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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 132 acres are common land. The manufacture of woollen-cloth was formerly carried on to a great extent, but the …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… from India and the Far East, probably as pieces of COTTON CLOTH of an appropriate length for making up. It was defined …
Survey of London Monograph
… the mantling. Badge: A circular towel or torse of twisted cloth with knotted ends. (Seal among East Sutton Park … with King Henry's defiance to Louis XII; 1520 at Field of Cloth of Gold; d. c. April 1522. Father of Thomas Wall, …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… laws from the 1730's, coupled with improving times in the cloth industry, 94 which kept expenditure virtually …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… In or shortly before 1824 Giles Radway built a new cloth-mill south of the old mill 281 and he was still working … in the early 19th century it presumably had a number of cloth-workers; the increase from 16 to 33 tradesmen families …