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A History of the County of Hampshire
… the townspeople. But the serjeants would not come nor the traders, who have business to do, for it would be a hardship …
A History of the County of Oxford
… over 1,000, point to dealings both with prominent London traders and mercers, 20 and with Italian merchants such as … in Wiltshire and the west of England, who were primarily traders and large employers of labour. 52 Prominent … although most were in fact successful and possibly retired traders, manufacturers, farmers, or professionals. 213 Thus …
A History of the County of Oxford
… repairs by the bishop designed probably to attract new traders. 9 The underlying cause was presumably insufficient … under 13 s., 10 while in 1319 the market was disrupted and traders were assaulted apparently in a dispute over …
A History of the County of Oxford
… it seems likely that some were also prominent merchants or traders: Robert Lambert, who owned three houses and 20 a., … the 1480s the town had attracted a small group of foreign traders, the largest recorded in the county outside Oxford; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and store managers in 1920, acquired 22 members, though a traders' exhibition proposed for 1934 was abandoned through …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the bridge. 174 Houses occupied by a variety of craftsmen, traders, and merchants, some of them substantial people, lay …
A History of the County of Essex
… and fishermen, and in 1572 Wivenhoe had 3 coasting traders. 82 Some fishermen and mariners also farmed. William …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… became a popular social occasion on Saturday evenings. 9 Traders also used Market Street, whose coincidence with the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… boards and usually had two different levels; street traders could evade the sanitary inspector's jurisdiction by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… workmen. A bylaw of 1705 ordering distraint of unfree traders was repeated in 1715 and 1726, when a test prosecution apparently failed. 15 Unfree traders were occasionally fined, but in 1769 the council …