 | Johann Beckmann - 1814 - 708 oldal
...Pembroke was the first nobleman who wore worsted knit stockings.* In the year 1564, William Rider, an apprentice of Master Thomas Burdet, having accidentally...under Henry VIII; that they were brought from Spain to that country; and that the invention belongs, in all probability, to the stockins by Thomas Greiham,... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 552 oldal
...Pembroke was the first nobleman who wore worsted knit stockings.* In the year 1.064, William Rider, an apprentice of Master Thomas Burdet, having accidentally...under Henry VIII; that they were brought from Spain to that country; arid that the invention belongs, in all probability, to the stockins by Thomas Gresham,... | |
 | Francis Sellon White - 1827 - 608 oldal
...reign. It is related by Stowe, that in 1564, William Rider, an apprentice of Master Thomas Burdett, having accidentally seen in the shop of an Italian...pair of knit worsted stockings, procured from Mantua, made a pair exactly like them, which he presented to William, Earl of Pembroke, and that these were... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1841 - 558 oldal
...for instance, we are told, that, in the year 1564, William Rider, an apprentice of Mr Thomas Burdett, having accidentally seen in the shop of an Italian...these were the first stockings knit, in England of i yarn. Either this anecdote or the act of Ed» VI. must be incorrect, and we think the bab credibility... | |
 | 1852 - 252 oldal
...wore worsted knit stockings. In the year l564, William Rider, an apprentice of Master Thomas Bиrdet, having accidentally seen in the shop of an Italian...Henry VIII.; that they were brought from Spain to that country ; and that the invention belongs, in all probability, to the Spaniards. Were this really... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - 1852 - 268 oldal
...of Pembroke was the first nobleman who wore worsted knit stockings. In the year J564, William Ridor, an apprentice of master Thomas Burdet, having accidentally...pair of knit worsted stockings, procured from Mantua, having borrowed them, made a pair exactly like them ; these were the first stockings that were knit... | |
 | William Felkin - 1867 - 648 oldal
...the following effect: "That in 1564, one William llilcy, apprentice to master Thomas Burdett, having seen in the shop of an Italian merchant, a pair of knit worsted stockings from Mantua, borrowed them and made a pair exactly like them, and these are said to have been the first... | |
 | Alfred Barlow - 1878 - 470 oldal
...by Stow, to the effect " that in 1564 one William Riley, apprentice to Master Thomas Burdett, having seen in the shop of an Italian merchant a pair of knit worsted stocking-? from Mantua, borrowed them and made a pair exactly like them, and these are said to have... | |
 | Edward Newenham Hoare - 1882 - 246 oldal
...generally followed. He says — "In 1564, one William Rider, apprentice to Master Thomas Burder, having seen in the shop of an Italian merchant a pair of knit worsted stockings of Mantua, borrowed them and made a pair exactly like them ; and these are said to have been the first... | |
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Burdet, having accidentally seen in the shop of an Italian merchant a pair of knit worsted stockings, procured from Mantua, and having borrowed them, made a pair exactly like them, and these were the first stockings knit in England of woollen yarn. From... 
