Cordwainers & Cobblers, Shoemakers in Colonial America
“The cobbler aproned and the parson gowned, The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned. Or cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow. The rest is all but leather or prunella.” Pope, Essay on Man The word shoe is derived form the Anglo Saxon ‘scoh,’ meaning any … Continue reading Cordwainers & Cobblers, Shoemakers in Colonial America
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