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  <dc:title>Paper, 'The history of arts, illiberal and mechanick' by John Evelyn</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Evelyn provides categorised lists of mechanic and 'illiberal' trades and occupations. His categories are as follows:

- Usefull and purely mechanic
- Meane trades
- Servile
- Rusticall
- Femal [female] artifices
- Polite and more liberall
- Curious
- Exotick, and very rare seacretts [secrets]

Subject: Art / Trade

Read to the Royal Society on 16 January 1660.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1660</dc:date>
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