The Boot and Shoe Trades in London and Paris in the Long Eighteenth Century

citizen and pattenmaker, 1703.
• PROB 5/6 167: Will of Humphry Borrow, cordwainer of Newnton, Wilts, 1685.
• PROB 20/592: Will of William Cooke, Arlington, Gloucs., cordwainer, 1721.
• PROB 20/1007: Will of William Gambell, London, cordwainer, 1670.
• PROB 20/1902: Will of Arnold Newman, Romford, Ess., cordwainer, 1792.
• PROB 20/2564: Will of James Thompson, cordwainer in Southwark, London,
1740.
• PROB 20/2564: Will of James Thompson, St. George the Martyr, cordwainer,
1740.
• PROB 20/2738: Will of Henry Weston, Leics., cordwainer, 1694.
• PROB 32/60/81: Will of Richard Lush, shoemaker, Pall Mall, St. James,
Westminster, Middx., 1716
• SP 28/lA: State Paper Office (August-September 1642).
• SP 28/37: State Paper Office (March-April 1646).
• Ti 463/331: Treasury Papers, 1557-1920.
• Ti 463/333: Treasury Papers, 1557-1920.
Petitions and Acts
• Petitions and Addresses to Parliament, Reasons humbly offered to the High
Court of Parliament to shew the great damage the public receives by the ill
flawing of Raw Hides and Calves-Skins, London, 1675 (?).
• Directions, Brief Directions how to tanne leather according to a new invention
made by several! of the principal tanners using Leadenhall Market, London,
1680 (?).
• Petitions and Addresses to the House of Commons, To the honourable House
of Commons. The humble petition of the poor journymen shooe-makers of the
city of London, Westminster and Southwark, and their brethren of the countrey,
1691 (?).
• Petitions and Addresses to Parliament, Reasons humbly offered to the High
Court of Parliament against laying a duty of one peny per pound upon tann 'd
Leather, etc., H. Hills, (London: 1694).
• A Computation of what a tax laid on shoes, boots, slippers, and gloves may
amount unto a year: whereby it is made appear it will bring more mony into
the Exchequer, and be a less tax on the subject... (London: 1694).
• Petitions and Addresses to Parliament, Proposal... for the laying a Tax upon
Raw Hides, etc., by Richard Organ, (London: 1695).
• Miscellaneous, The Present Case of the Tanners, Curriers, Shoemakers, and
other dealers in leather, London, 1695 (?).
• Petitions and Addresses to Parliament, Reasons humbly offered to the High
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