English Industries of the Middle Ages / Being an Introduction to the Industrial History of Medieval England

by L. F. Salzman

[[774]] The 'brakeman' reduced the bar iron to rods, ready to be drawn into wire.

[[775]] i.e. bending.

[[776]] i.e. girdlers; middle = waist.

[[777]] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 85.

[[778]] Toulmin Smith, English Gilds, 184.

[[779]] Ibid.

[[780]] Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 27.

[[781]] Borough Recs. of Leicester, i. 105; Coventry Leet Bk., 95; Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 7, 8.

[[782]] Beverley Town Docts. (Selden Soc.), 53.

[[783]] Little Red Book of Bristol, 5.