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An act for prohibiting the use of lime in bleaching, regulating seal masters of linens, encouraging the home manufacture of ashes for bleachers use, enlarging and rendering more commodious the Linen Hall in the city of Dublin, and other purposes therein mentioned.
Ireland.Date: 1782- Books
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The compleat appraiser. Consisting of useful tables, with their explanation, for the valuing of braziers, copper-smiths, plumbers, and pewterers goods: also for Iron, Wall-Paper, Damask and Linen Furniture, Liquors, Plate, &c. By an eminent broker, lately deceased.
Eminent broker.Date: Printed in the Year 1783- Books
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Copies of the several memorials presented to the Linen-Board, by the merchants of Dublin, London, Bristol, Liverpoole, Chester, and different parts of England; Concerning the late regulations of the board, and the present design of making a new body of laws, for the better order and regulation of the linen manufacture of Ireland.
Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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A collection of the acts of Parliament, now in force, relating to the linen manufacture. With an abstract thereof under proper heads. And an alphabetical index of such words as seem most likely to lead to any particular article. Published by Order of the Commissioners and Trustees appointed by his Majesty, for Improving the Linen Manufacture of Scotland.
Great Britain.Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]- Books
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Papers, collected, and seriously deliberated upon, by a number of Linen-Drapers in and near Lisburn and Belfast, humbly presented to the Right Honourable and Honourable the trustees of the linen manufacture, as materials for a linen-bill; And humbly submitted to their Consideration, Preparatory to a New Act of Parliament for the better Order, Regulation, and Improvements of the said Manufacture. March 2, 1763.
Date: [1763]- Books
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Observations on the evidence relating to the Russia trade: as delivered at the bar of the Honourable the House of Commons, on the 5th of May, 1774; To a Committee of the whole House, appointed to enquire into the present State of the Linen Trade of Great Britain and Ireland. By Mr. Forster.
Forster, Edward, 1730-1812.Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Stuart's Irish Merlin; or universal almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1787. Being the Third after Leap-Year; And Twenty-Seventh Year of K. George III. Reign. [illegible] the 25th of Oct. Giving Every Article of Useful Information necessary for the Peer, Gentleman, Merchant, Trader, and Farmer; and containing I. The kalendar on an improved and enlarged Plan; with ample Instructions for the management of the Fruit, Kitchen, and Flower-Gardens for every Month in the Year. II. The sun's rising and setting; - Moon's Age and Changes; Equation Table; and Time of High-Water at Dublin-Bar. III. Tables of coin, commission, Interest, Exchange, Weights, and Measures, with many others equally useful, not hitherto printed. IV. The names of the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council; Lords and Commons of Parliament; Judges, Law-Officers, and others under the Crown. The Terms, Returns, Q. Sessions, And Assemblies. Also an alphabetical list of the net duties on all imports and exports; -Schedule of Stamp Duties;-An Extract from the Dub. Society Premiums,-Linen-Board Bounties;-A State of the Linen-Markets in the Province of Ulster, with its Exports from the Dublin Markets The Fairs, Roads, and Post-Towns in Ireland Published by Authority. The whole calculated so as to form a Complete System of Commercial Information, and promote the Advantages of the rising Trade of this Kingdom.
Stewart, Alexander, printer.Date: [1787]- Books
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Essays and observations on the following subjects. Viz. On trade. - Husbandry of flax. -Raising Banks against Tides and Floods. -Hops. Directions for making Roads. Instructions for making Syder. Observations on the Linen Manufactury. -on Dressing Flax. - on brewing. Published by a Society of Gentlemen in Dublin.
Royal Dublin Society.Date: M,DCC,XL. [1740]- Books
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The contest: being poetical essays on the Queen's grotto: wrote in consequence of an invitation in the Gentlemen's Magazine for April, 1733 Wherein was Proposed, That the author of the Best Piece be Entitled to a Volume for that Year, Royal Paper, and finely bound in Morocco; and the Author of the Second Best, to a Volume Common Paper. To These are added, The gift of Pallas, and the lover's webb, Two poems on the Fine Piece of Linen made in Ireland, and presented by the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture to the Princess Royal. Also An Epithalamivm On the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange.
Date: [1734]- Books
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At a general meeting of all the volunteer companies of Belfast, held at the Linen-Hall, October the 4th, 1791: resolved unanimously, That the following Answer be transmitted by our Chairman to the Roman Catholics assembled at Jamestown the 23d, and at Elphin the 24th of August last.
Volunteer Companies of Belfast.Date: 1791?]- Books
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Gilpin's rig; or the wedding day kept, a droll story; read by Mr. Henderson, at Free-Masons Hall and Mr. Baddeley, at Drury Lane Theatre. Containing An Account of John Gilpin, the Bold Linen Draper of Cheapside; how he went farther and faster than he intended, and came Home safe at last.
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.Date: [1785?]- Books
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A treatise on the better employment, and More Comfortable Support, of the Poor in Workhouses. Together with Some Observations on the Growth and Culture of Flax. With Divers New Inventions, neatly engraved on Copper, for the Improvement of the Linen Manufacture, of which The Importance and Advantages are considered and evinced. By William Bailey, Member of the Society for promoting Arts and Commerce.
Bailey, William, active 1770.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]- Books
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A catalogue of the genuine houshold furniture, Plate, Linen, China, Books, Antiquarian Prints, &c. of Mr. Joshua Blew, F. S. A. Deceased, Late Librarian of the Inner Temple. Which (by Order of the Executor) will be Sold by Auction, By W. Bristow, At his late Chambers in the King's Bench Walks, near White Fryars Gateway, in the Temple, On Thursday, March 7, beginning precisely at Twelve o'clock.
Bristow, Whiston, active 1760-1770.Date: 1765?]- Books
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The reports and observations of Robert Stephenson, made to the Right Hon. and Honourable the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture, for the years 1760, and 1761. Distinguishing the state of the spinning and weaving in each county, respectively; as also what species of the manufacture they are employed in, the progress made by the inhabitants, and how the most immediate and effectual improvements are likely to the obtained, in the several branches thereof throughout the kingdom. Printed by order of the board.
Stephenson, Robert, Linen Manufacturer.Date: 1762- Books
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A linen draper's letter to the friends of Ireland. Dublin, 1778.
Linen Draper.Date: 1778- Books
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An appeal to the people of Ireland. Occasioned by the insinuations and misrepresentations of the author of a weekly paper, entitled, The censor. Proving, That the Principles laid down in that Paper, and the Author's Reflections upon England, are unjust, ungrateful, and, in their Consequences, highly injurious to the Linen Manufacture, to the Charter Schools, and to the whole Protestant Interest of Ireland. By a member of the Incorporated Society for promoting English Protestant schools in Ireland.
Henry, William, -1768.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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An appeal to the people of Ireland. Occasioned by the insinuations and misrepresentations of the author of a weekly paper, entitled, The censor. Proving, That the Principles laid down in that Paper, and the Author's Reflections upon England, are unjust, ungrateful, and, in their Consequences, highly injurious to the Linen Manufacture, to the Charter Schools, and to the whole Protestant Interest of Ireland. By a member of the Incorporated Society for promoting English Protestant schools in Ireland.
Henry, William, -1768.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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The reports and observations of Robert Stephenson, made to the Right Hon. and Honourable the Trustees of the Linen Manufacture, for the years M,DCC,LXII, and M,DCC,LXIII. Distinguishing the state of the spinning and weaving in each county, respectively; as also what species of the manufacture they are employed in, the progress made by the inhabitants, and how the most immediate and effectual improvements are likely to be obtained, in the several branches thereof throughout the kingdom. Printed by order of the board.
Stephenson, Robert, Linen Manufacturer.Date: [1764?]- Books
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A method to prevent, Without a register, the Running of wool from Ireland to France, and to Other Foreign Parts; In order to Re-Establish The Woolen Manufacture of England. Shewing, at the same Time, How to Raise a Fund, wherewith to Erect and Maintain such a Number of English Protestant Schools in Ireland, as the Legislature shall think proper; and also greatly to Encourage and Extend the Linen Manufacture of Ireland.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Abstract of the linen statutes of Ireland, now in force.
Ireland.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Pictures
Cabinet-making: an Elizabethan linen-press. Process print.
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Observations on the several matters offered to the linen board as materials for a linen bill; Particularly on a paper, called, observations on the linen trade. Together with some humble hints with regard to the proposed amendment of our linen laws. By the linen weavers and manufacturers of the towns of Belfast, Lisburn, Hillsborough, and country adjacent.
Date: MDCCLXIII. [1763]- Books
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[An] appeal to the people of Ireland. Occasioned by the insinuations and misrepresentations of the author of a weekly paper, entitled, The censor. Proving, that the principles laid down in that paper, and the author's reflections upon England, are unjust, ungrateful, and, in their consequences, highly injurious to the Linen Manufacture, to the Charter Schools, and to the whole Protestant interest of Ireland. By a member of the incorporated society for promoting English Protestant schools in Ireland.
Henry, William, -1768.Date: MDCCXLIX. [1749]- Books
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A linen draper's letter to the friends of Ireland. Dublin 1778.
Linen Draper.Date: Printed in the year, M.DCC.LXXIX [1779]- Books
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Memorial for the linen-manufacturers of Scotland.
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