Group: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
From: "Andrew Chaplin"
Date: Saturday, March 15, 2008 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: Grammar School -- British & American

"a.spencer3" wrote in message
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> "Brian Sharrock" wrote in message
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>> "a.spencer3" wrote in message
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>> > Our Founder was Court Embroiderer ... a man ... I always wondered?!
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>> Court Embroiderer? Is that similiar to today's 'Prime Minister's Official
>> Spokesman' (POMS)?
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> Until the spinning jenny was invented ........

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Andrew Chaplin
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