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A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney was transformed by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The blanket industry … in 1851 blanket-workers still comprised almost 19 per cent of the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… existed in the early or mid 14th century, when Roger of Standlake, one of a prominent Witney burgess family, learnt to read there. 1 John Scolemaster of Witney was mentioned about 1375, though his surname was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town, 2 and the parish church and the excavated remains of the bishop of Winchester's manor house show that there was high-quality … Street referred probably to quarries immediately west of the borough; manorial and (possibly) town quarries were …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Courts Borough Autonomy By the mid 13th century bishops of Winchester had secured wide-ranging liberties within their … 108 A medical officer of health, a qualified doctor required to make annual reports and to assist with … of the poor's rate and tax', in contravention of earlier decrees. 190 In 1722 inhabitants asked that owners of fulling …
A History of the County of Essex
… Wivenhoe Charities for the poor WIVENHOE THE ancient parish of Wivenhoe, c. 3 miles south-east of Colchester on the east bank of the river Colne where it widens to form an estuary, …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Not to be confused with WEED ASH, these are the residues of ASHES from burning WOOD. This crude form of POTASH had to be processed to concentrate the content of … changed his mind, or later editors did so in his name: 'Doctor Tradition, that grand Introducer of errors, that hater …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 1600. See Woodhall. Woodarde, Nicholas s. Christopher, of Mechlen in Flanders, gent. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Oct., 1635, aged 18. [ 5] Woodbridge, Benjamin of Wilts, sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. 9 Nov., 1638, aged … chaplain to Charles II., silenced by the act of conformity; died at Inglefield, Berks, 1 Nov., 1684, …
A History of the County of Essex
… LOCAL GOVERNMENT. During the Middle Ages the abbot of Waltham, as lord of the manor, held courts for Woodford. He took the profits … asylums. In 1775, following outbreaks of smallpox, a doctor was appointed to attend poor parishioners at an annual …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Margaret) WOODHALL ( St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Horncastle, S. division of the wapentake of Gartree, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 3 miles (W. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its original market, 66 but it remained a small community of tradesmen, craftsmen, and royal servants. Service in the … other names were derived from the building crafts of mason, carpenter, thatcher, and slater, the metal crafts of smith, ironmonger, and plumber, the textile crafts of …