The history and directory of the borough of Derby, a guide

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1843 - 80 pages
 

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Page 76 - ... but it was not until the beginning of the eighteenth century that the manufacture of that elegant article by machinery upon an extensive scale was introduced into this country. The Italians had previously possessed the art of throwing silk by means of machinery, and the French excelled in the fabric of piece-goods. Attempts were made in England to rival these productions, but without success.
Page 18 - It is said he was a complete master of the art of begging. The people to whom he applied were not able to keep their money ; it passed from their pockets to his own as if by magic. Wherever he could recollect a person likely to contribute to this desirable work, he made no scruple...
Page 63 - I will only add, that as the sun has shone brightly on me through life, it would be ungrateful in me not to employ a portion of the fortune which I possess in promoting the welfare of those amongst whom I live, and by whose industry I have been aided in its acquisition.
Page 78 - Italians, who felt the effects of the theft from their want of trade, determined his destruction, and hoped that of his works would follow. An artful woman came over in the character of a friend, associated with the parties, and assisted in the business. She attempted to gain both the Italians, and succeeded with one. By these two, slow poison was supposed, and perhaps justly, to have been administered to John Lombe, who lingered two or three years in agonies and departed. The Italian ran away to...
Page 21 - ... overboard, quenched the remains of the fire on the sail and restored all to safety. There are many interesting records in Derbyshire of the Cantrell, or Cantrill, family (as the name is alternately spelled), which was closely identified with St. Alkmund's Church for over a century. St. Alkmund's Church is supposed to have been founded as early as the ninth century, and is undoubtedly the oldest church in Derby. In the Register of this church is an autobiography of John Cantrell, minister and...
Page 20 - His name will be an object of more veneration in future ages than at the present moment. Though it was unknown in the busy scenes of life, or in the popular discussions of the day, it will remain illustrious in the annals of science, which...
Page 77 - That the works had taken so long a time in perfecting, and the people in teaching, that there had been none to acquire emolument from the patent.
Page 67 - The game commences in the market-place, where the partisans of each parish are drawn up on each side, and about noon a large ball is tossed up in the midst of them. This is seized upon by some of the strongest and most active men of each party. The rest of the players immediately close in upon them and a solid mass is formed.
Page 18 - If a stranger passed through Derby, the doctor's bow and his rhetoric were employed in the service of the church. His anxiety was urgent, and his powers so prevailing, that he seldom failed of success. When the waites fiddled at his door for a Christmas box, instead of sending them away with a solitary shilling, he invited them in, treated them with a tankard of ale, and persuaded them out of a guinea.
Page 50 - Gaol at Derby. Our ancestors erected one in a river, exposed to damp and filth, as if they meant to drown the culprit before they hanged him. A worse situation could not have been chosen : it extended across the corn-market, one of the principal streets, as if to hide the brook or bind the flood. The wretched inhabitant was open to the public and they to him.

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