- or
export business. A
cloth merchant might additionally own a
number of
draper's shops.
Cloth was
extremely expensive and
cloth merchants were
often very...
-
around 1593,
Walton moved to
London in his teens,
where he
worked as a
linen draper. In the capital, he
befriended the poet and
clergyman John Donne. A Royalist...
-
wealthy draper from
Cheapside in London, who
owned land at Olney, Buckinghamshire, near
where Cowper lived. It is
likely that he was a Mr Beyer, a
linen draper...
- his
death in 1616,
Whitaker noted that he owed "Christopher Levite, a
linen draper of the city of York" just over £5.
Trained as a York merchant, Levett...
- He
started to run,
accompanied by the
unnamed receiver of the bet, a
linen draper named Barham Wise and a
photographer named Hamerson Burns, who followed...
-
Ferri Contarini (born 1634),
accused of
having poisoned her
husband the
linen draper Antonio Contarini (d 1655) and for
selling poison;
tortured but did not...
- 1747) was
Archbishop of
Canterbury (1737–1747). He was the son of a
linen draper at Wakefield, Yorkshire. At the age of
fourteen he
entered University...
- Paul's
School in 1776, then
placed him in a
London apprenticeship with a
linen draper, but
young John ran away at the age of
eighteen and
joined Charles Mates'...
- of indigestion". He had
several apprenticeships (to a blacksmith, a
linen draper, and a weaver)
until he
became a
teacher in 1798. He
moved to England...
- the
comic tale of John
Gilpin a
linen draper of
Cheapside London, who was
probably based on a Mr Beyer, a
linen draper of the
Cheapside corner of Paternoster...
