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A History of the County of Oxford
… 184, 193. Mercers ranked much lower in earlier 16th-cent. subsidies: Witney Ct. Bks. pp. lxviii; PRO, E 179/162/223; E …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 30 Whatever the source of their income, early 14th-century subsidies confirm the presence of a small group of … surnames relating to cloth manufacture recorded in the lay subsidies of 1316 and 1327. 61 Demand for fulling had risen …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, far more than in any of the surrounding villages. Subsidies, musters, and baptisms, combined with physical …