Obs. [WORKING vbl. sb.] = WORKHOUSE 1, 2.
1487. in Cal. Lett.-bk. L London (1912), 242. [That no time-expired apprentice … set up shop or] wirkyng hous [within the City].
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., V. Chor. 23. In the quick Forge and working-house of Thought.
1711. Act 10 Anne, c. 19 § 55. Any such Goods, so made, printed, painted, or stained … in … their Ware-houses, Working-houses, or Places aforesaid.
1597–8. Act 39 Eliz., c. 5 (title), An Acte for erecting of Hospitalls or abiding and working Howses for the Poore.
1639. Bury Wills (Camden), 178. The common workinghouse of Bury.
