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Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I
… city and other towns and demesne boroughs aforesaid the weaving craft of such cloth is plyed, and by whom, and in …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I
… wont to render to the exchequer for having the office of weaving ( officio telar') there, so that at the said feast …
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III
… town who wish to work cloth to keep the instruments for weaving in their own houses and to keep workmen there, … the others that whereas they caused divers instruments for weaving cloth to be brought to their houses, and also weavers …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Messrs. Westmacott and Co. have 100 looms at work weaving broad silks and velvets; in 1826, Mr. Bankes … engaged, and in 1838 introduced a number of machines for weaving lace-net. An extensive iron-foundry and steam … been carried on so early as the reign of Edward III.; the weaving of baizes, for which the town was afterwards …
A History of the County of Oxford
… there is no later evidence of receipts for spinning and weaving, perhaps reflecting increasing mechanization in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… on the road to Oakhampton; containing 878 inhabitants. The weaving of serges is carried on by hand-looms in many of the … common or waste. About forty persons are employed in the weaving of serge by hand-loom. Facility of communication is …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… inhabitants are chiefly employed in spinning, power-loom weaving, bleaching, and printing, and the remainder …
Analytical index to the series of records known as the Remembrancia
… and 1619, requiring all Freemen of London using the art of Weaving, not free of the Company of Weavers, to be forthwith …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Stone for building and road-making is quarried; and the weaving of cloth employs about thirty persons. Fairs are held …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… It is chiefly occupied by persons employed in handloom weaving, and in the various factories in the vicinity of … to Brechin; and its population is chiefly employed in weaving linen-cloth for the manufacturers in the surrounding … employed in the various processes of dyeing, spinning, and weaving the materials. Crawton CRAWTON, a village, in the …