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A History of the County of Oxford
… considering schemes to employ the poor in silk winding or cloth and blanket weaving. 53 By the 18th century the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… with two stories and attics built chiefly of stone with a Welsh slate roof. The other chief farms of the Beaufort … on the west in 1969. The whole building is of stone with a Welsh slate and partly stone slate roof. Dom. Bk. (Rec. …
A History of the County of Somerset
… a year c. 1594 and in 1605 there was neither a communion cloth nor a pewter pot. 12 In 1612 fives was played in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyans, Welsh Methodists, and Arminian Bible Christians; also a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… built and of mean appearance. The manufacture of broad-cloth, which was formerly carried on, has entirely ceased, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… this calamity is supposed to have been inflicted by the Welsh, who had resolved on the entire devastation of the … hills to the south-west, and the Shropshire hills and the Welsh mountains in the distance, are strikingly contrasted … near the margin of the Severn. The manufacture of broad-cloth prevailed here to a very great extent in the reign of …