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Waistcoat with covered buttons


RichardB

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Jan 1791. Number of persons maintained in the poorhouse, 134.

Town library;—admission money raised to three

guineas; president, Rev. T. Younge.

Mar. 18.

"Upon information before R. A. Athorpe, Esq.

a tailor of this place was convicted in the penalty

of forty shillings a dozen for setting covered buttons

upon a gentleman's waistcoat, and the wearer in a

like penalty, for appealing in the waistcoat so

made."

—Sheffield Reg.

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Jan 1st 1802.

The master and journeymen button-makers of the

town give notice that, after the 11th of September,

they will lay informations under 8th Queen .Anne,

against all tailors using, and other persons wearing,

garments having buttons covered with cloth

or other stuif, whereby they incur penalties of £5

and 40s.

— [This statute remains unrepealed, 1830. — EB.]

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