Stockings for a Queen: The Life of the Rev. William Lee, the Elizabethan Inventor

xvi, 188 pp. William Lee (1563 - 1614) was an English clergyman and inventor who devised the first stocking frame knitting machine in 1589, the only one in use for centuries. Its principle of operation remains in use. Lee was born in the village of Calverton, Nottinghamshire.