The People Speak
The following
extracts are taken from 'A City Full of People, Men
and Women of London 1650-1750' by Peter Earle.
page 193:
I am a winder of silk for ye weavers and was born in
Nightingale Lane [Limehouse] and lived there till I was
about eleven years of age and then went into service in
Bishopsgate Street and lived there thirteen years and
from thence went to Walthamstow and lived there above two
years and then marryed [a weaver] and lived in Lamb Ally
in Bishopsgate Street about two years [until the death of
the husband] and from that time I have lived in Pettycote
Lane and have lived by winding of silk. (Evidence of Anne Ramsbottom, widow, aged thirty seven). [PROB
24 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury depositions). PROB
24/59 f. 311.
p.205:
Mrs
Shaw brought Mary Kirkwood five pounds of money to clip and
she was to have had eighteen pence in the pound for
clipping the same and she only gaveher half a crown for
clipping it all ... and she said her husband when he was
alive us'd to have eighteen pence in the pound for
clipping. [Information of Sarah Cross, wife of Smith Cross, sailor of Wapping 8 April 1696.) GLRO
MJ/SP/APR 1696.
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