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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1634-1688
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Manufactory, n. Also: -ie, -é, manifactory, -ie. [e.m.E. manufactory (a 1618), f. as Manufactor n.1]
1. Manufacture; manual occupation, handicraft; industrial production. 1634 Cochran-Patrick Coinage II. 102.
All means … for introducing of manufactoreis that … thair may be less occasioun for … home bringing of necessers 1640 Analecta Scotica I. 391.
The heavie chairgis upon mertchandice … the multitude of … patentis, whairby the comodities and manifactoryes of the kingdome ar mutch burdenit 1647 Sc. Ant. XIII. 33. 1662 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 127. 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 275.
2. A manufacturing establishment, a workshop employing a number of people, a factory. 1647 Acts VI. i. 794/2.
John Huntar [silver and gold lace weaver] … gave in a petitioun … for setting vp a manufactorie of his trade 1649 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 100.
Awners of ane manufactorie for making of broad cloathe 1655–6 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 533.
The dewtie of the trone being … four merkis for the tolbuith and ane schilling for the manifactorie 1680 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs IV. 21.
That they are daylie trubled by the masters of the caird manufactorie at Leith upon pretence thair merchands should sell no cairds bot these … made in the said manufactorie 1681 New Mills Manuf. lxxxvii. 1685 Edinb. B. Rec. XI. 148. 1688 Tryal Philip Standsfield 21.
The cawsey that leads to the manufactory
3. Attrib. and comb. 1669 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 121.
Simon Pittersgillis tak of the manufactorie hous … to be given to him 1685 Wodrow Hist. (1828) IV. 346.
All persons … who … shall set up any manufactories to … apprehend any vagabonds … and set at work to spin and card and working such manufactory-work as [etc.]
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