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History of lace (1902)

Palliser, Bury, Mrs., 1805-1878, Jourdain, Margaret, Dryden, Alice · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 621

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ntdAngleterre en Flandres, Picardie et Champagne, on nentire plus de Londres pour la France. Great distress, too, is said to have existed among rheHoniton lace-makers after the two great fires of 1756 and1767. The second was of so devastatino; a character thatthe town had to be rebuilt. Shawe… … aspect, and the principal street, extending from east to w^st,is paved in a remarkable manner, forming a canal, wellshouldered up on each side with pel)l)les and green turf,which holds a stream of clear water with a square dippingplace opposite each door, a mark of cleanliness and con-venience I…

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