- 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...
- and Anna
Maria Mordaunt. Her
diplomat father, the son of a
successful linen draper (though
distantly descended from an old
landowning family), had been...
-
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
follows her and
discovers she is
Margaret Sherwin, only
daughter of a
linen draper. He
persuades her
father to let him
marry her secretly. He
agrees on...
- 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...
-
Donegal in
Ardeen House on the
outskirts of the town. Her
father was a
linen draper with a
prosperous shop in the town.
Black went to
Royal London Hospital...
