Excerpt from Topography of Great Britain or British Traveller's Pocket Directory, Vol. 18: Being an Accurate and Comprehensive of All the Counties in England, Scotland, and Wales, With the Adjacent Islands; Maps of the Counties, Which Form a Complete British Atlas I all persons, within ten miles round Nottingham, are forbidden to work-dyed cloth, but in the borough. This manufacture continued in a prosperous state till the reign of Queen Mary; then it gradually went off, til] at last it entirely left this place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.