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A History of the County of Oxford
… From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed … in Burford, Bicester, or Eynsham, though by then the local cloth industry was expanding and population was probably … and from the Middle Ages to the 19th century the local cloth industry in particular benefited from close links both …
A History of the County of Oxford
… three looms and goods valued at 121 (including wool and cloth worth 95), his net assets after payment of debts came … early 19th. They are of stone, with roofs of stone or of Welsh slates; some minor structures are of brick, with roofs … have faades of stone, gable ends partially of brick, and Welsh slate roofs; windows have flat or shallow arched heads …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 17th century came to nothing, though from 1711 the cloth industry secured economic self-regulation through the … was mentioned in 1589, and a bread-weigher in 1607. Two cloth-searchers or sealers and, from the 1540s, two … the 1560s and 1570s, while the clothier Nicholas Gunn was cloth-searcher from the 1570s to 1590s. 46 Following the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… seal and who was frequently associated with medieval cloth or textile guilds. 74 A 14th-century crypt and chapel …
A History of the County of Oxford
… late 17th century, reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier … Several of the group seem to have been associated with the cloth industry and to have had London trade links, those from …
A History of the County of Essex
… against his opponents. 34 In 1633 there was no decent cloth for the communion table and no pulpit cloth. 35 Thomas Cawton, rector 1637-44, was later a … before 1663. 36 In 1684 the church still lacked pulpit cloth and linen for the communion table; a new surplice, a …
A History of the County of Essex
… in the 16th and 17th centuries, supply- ing wool for the cloth trade of Colchester and other towns, but arable farming … for an allowance for weaving, fulling, and 'oding' of cloth. 47 Some domestic weaving was carried on in the parish …