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He was a clothworker by birth and his colleagues used to ask why dealing in canvas, or ``floorcloth'', as it was known, gave him a right to talk about art as well as counting the cash
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He was a clothworker by birth and his colleagues used to ask why dealing in canvas, or ``floorcloth'', as it was known, gave him a right to talk about art as well as counting the cash
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He is now busy talking with Alderman Hart the grocer, Sheriff Spencer the clothworker, and
Westward Ho! 2007
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Lambe, sometime a gentleman of the chappell to King Henry the Eighth, and afterwards a citizen and clothworker of London, which amounted to the sum of 1,500_l_.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 Various
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Edmund Spenser was born in London in 1552, and was the son of a poor clothworker or tailor.
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His father was a clothworker in the neighbourhood of St. Paul's, and a Catholic; the son adhered to his father's faith throughout his fife.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Maurice Longe, clothworker, and his son William Longe, for the sum of
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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Tofts, wife of a clothworker, who in 1726 professed to have had a lamentable misadventure.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Archbishop Abbot, son of a poor clothworker of the town, scholar of
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Arden of Saint Martin's Outwich, London, citizen and clothworker, on
Shakespeare's Family 1885
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