| Description | Mark of Hen. Wilkinson. (dorso) Witn. Edw. Browne (mark), Mic. Lucas, Rog. Ambrose.
No. 191 shows some of the secular and parochial work which fell to the share of the churchwardens. It is, as far as these documents are concerned, unique, and forms a very interesting piece of evidence on the spread of button-making, which had been carried on in this country from Elizabethan times, though it was only in the eighteenth century after the decay of the trade in buckles, that it became one of the staple manufacturers of Birmingham. (See Victoria County History," II., 237). "Duble aparell" means two sets of garments.
Dated: 16 Jan., 20 Ch.I. (1644-5) |