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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.

Reference number
CLP/3i/1
Earliest possible date
01 January 1660
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Evelyn

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John Evelyn, Paper, 'The history of arts, illiberal and mechanick' by John Evelyn, 01 January 1660, CLP/3i/1, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_1/paper-the-history-of-arts-illiberal-and-mechanick-by-john-evelyn, accessed on 03 December 2024

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