 In the year 1589 the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts, of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for stockings (but being despised went to France) ; yet of iron to himself, but to us and others of gold, in memory of whom this...  Knowledge for the People ... - Page 63by John Timbs - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 552 pages
...Lond. 1733, vol. ip 603 : In the year \bSQ the ingenious William Lee, Master of arts of St. John's college Cambridge, devised this profitable art for...of gold ; in memory of whom this is here painted. f In his History of the world, already quoted, p. 171 : Nine and thirty years after was invented the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 332 pages
...Weavers' Hall, London : — "In the year 1589, the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for...the stocking manufactory in this country, where, in 1GG3, the masters were incorporated by letters-patent. In their petition the machine is described as... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 300 pages
...Oct.—Two peyr of k'nytt-hose, is." ings, (hut being despised, went to France,) yet of iron to himself, hut to us and others of gold: in memory of whom this is here painted."—Seven of Lee's workmen returned to England, and with another laid the foundation of the... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1836 - 500 pages
...following quaint inscription : — " In the year 1589, the ingenious William Lee, AM, of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for...to France,) yet of iron to himself, but to us and to others, of gold ; in memory of whom this is here painted." It was only twenty-eight years prior... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 pages
...following inscription: — ' In the year 1589 the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for...of gold : in memory of whom this is here painted.' This painting might give rise to the story of his having invented the machine to facilitate the labour... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 pages
...following quaint inscription : — " In the year 1589, the ingenious William Lee, AM, of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for...to France,) yet of iron to himself, but to us, and to others, of gold ; in memory of whom this is here painted." This machine was constructed somewhere... | |
 | Miss Lambert (F.) - 1842 - 300 pages
...picture bears the following inscription : "In the year 1589, the ingenious William Lee, AM of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for...to France), yet of iron to himself, but to us and to others of gold, in memory of whom this is here painted." — Vide Button's View of London, vol.... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 684 pages
...Thoroton, the place of his birth2, but afterwards an apprentice of Lee, by whom he Arts of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for...of gold ; in memory of whom this is here painted." 1 In his History of the World, already quoted, p. 171 : " Nine and thirty years after was invented... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 594 pages
...John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for stockings (but being despised went to France1 yet of iron to himself, but to us and others of gold ; in memory of whom this is here painted." 1 In his History of the World, already quoted, p. 171 : " Nine and thirty years after was invented... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 568 pages
...Thoroton, the place of his birth2, but afterwards an apprentice of Lee, by whom he Arts of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for stockings (but being despised went to France^ ret of iron to himself, but to us and others of gold ; in memory of whom this is here painted." 1 In... | |
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