 | Johann Beckmann - 1814 - 708 oldal
...by Robert Seymour, Lond. 1733. fol. vol. ip 603: In the year 1A8Q the ingenious William Lee, Muster of arts of St. John's college Cambridge, devised this...after was invented the weaving of silk stockings, westcoats, and divers other things, by engines, or steel looms, by William Lee, Master of arts of St.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1831 - 302 oldal
...Sept— Peyd for 4 peyr of knytt-hose, viiis. "1538. 30H.8. 3 Oct.— Two peyr ot'knytt-hose, is." ings, (but being despised, went to France,) yet of iron...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 stocking... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 332 oldal
...inscription to an old painting of one in the Stocking Weavers' Hall, London : — "In the year 1589, the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts of St. John's...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 stocking... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 362 oldal
...Weavers' Hall, London : — "In the year 1589, the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts of St. Jolm's College, Cambridge, devised this profitable art for...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 stocking... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 300 oldal
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 594 oldal
...a female knitter standing near him; below it, is the following inscription: — ' In the year 1589 the ingenious William Lee, Master of Arts of St. John's...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... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1846 - 576 oldal
...was a miller at Thoroton, the place of his birth2, but afterwards an apprentice of Lee, by whom he Arts of St. John's College, Cambridge, devised this...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 oldal
...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 oldal
...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 his History of the World, already quoted, p. 1 71 : " Nine and thirty years after was invented... | |
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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... 
