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A History of the County of Oxford
… ownership. A house and shop on High Street, sold by a woollen draper in 1576, occupied an irregular plot only 30 … P. Beckinsale, 'Factors in the Development of the Cotswold Woollen Industry', Geographical Jnl. 90 (1937), 361. Jenkins, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… such as those of Emmot Fermor (1501), 79 William Elmer, woollen draper (1591), Nicholas Gunn (1602, with goods … seem to have been chests and coffers, used for storage of clothes and valuables including documents: in 1633 papers … but on tables and cupboards. 102 Those engaged in the woollen industry needed to store and process raw materials …
A History of the County of Oxford
… well and pump and reserved access to the river for washing clothes, with use of hedges in an adjoining close for drying …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… works were soon abandoned. It was subsequently let for a woollen manufactory, which prospered for a few years, but …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… from a spring on Mawndown, a hill about a mile distant. A woollen manufacture is carried on, but not on so large a …
A History of the County of Essex
… 19th century an average of eight people a year received clothes or material. As the rent of the field rose towards …