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Lavenham, or _Lanham_, a small town north of Sudbury, was once eminent for its manufactures, when there were eight or nine cloth-halls in the place, inhabited by rich clothiers. The De Veres, Earls of Oxford, whose names are blazoned in our history, held the manor from the rei...
There is a class of travelling oddities--the dandy _voyageurs_ of Britain, who, teeming with the proud consciousness of their excellence in comparison with the rest of human kin...
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1. Chapter 1Lavenham, or _Lanham_, a small town north of Sudbury, was once eminent for its manufactures, when there were eight or nine cloth-halls in the place, inhabited by rich clothiers....
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