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Fitzwilliam, Sir William (1460?–1534), merchant tailor and sheriff of London  

Matthew Davies

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Fitzwilliam, Sir William (1460?–1534), merchant tailor and sheriff of London, may have been a younger son of John and Ellen Fitzwilliam of Milton and Greens Norton in Northamptonshire. He began his career in London and was a servant to Sir John, husband of ...

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Towle, James (1780–1816), stocking knitter and machine breaker  

Malcolm I. Thomis

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Towle, James (1780–1816), stocking knitter and machine breaker, was a native of Basford, Nottingham. Almost nothing is known about his private life except that he had a wife and four children. Luddism—attacking machines in the name of ‘King Ludd’—had broken out in the cloth-finishing trade of the ...