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A History of the County of Oxford
… small manufacturing and market town. Retailers, including food and drink suppliers and publicans, accounted in 1851 for … around 2 per cent. Among retailers, suppliers of food and drink remained prominent, with bakers, butchers, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the court leet continued to regulate the market, inspect food and drink suppliers, and suppress nuisances: only once, … year the vestry agreed separate contracts for supply of food and beer. 215 Unions of local parishes were discussed …
A History of the County of Essex
… poor during the 1920s, and distributions made in money, food, and coal. 22 M. B. Brown of New York had spent some …
A History of the County of Essex
… fast schooners for bringing fruit and other perishable food from Spain and the eastern Mediterranean in exchange for …
A History of the County of Essex
… was 116, most of which was spent on gifts of coal, food, and clothing. Robert Rampston (d. 1585) left …
A History of the County of Essex
… of war and bad harvests it became necessary to subsidize food and fuel for the poor, in 1796 by means of voluntary …
A History of the County of Oxford
… hats, and a chandler and fishmonger. At least 12 were in food and drink trades, including 5 innkeepers, 2 vintners, 3 … may have derived their wealth chiefly from malting; the food and drink trades were represented by 3 innkeepers and a … 26 Of 18th-century tradesmen leaving wills those in the food and drink trades formed the largest group, particularly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… affairs. Rural distress in the town's hinterland provoked food riots at Woodstock in 1766 and tension over bread supply …
A History of the County of Oxford
… administrative business such as taxation, impressment, and food shortages, but in 1625 for a quarter sessions, perhaps …
A History of the County of Oxford
… allowing each Woodstock freemen only 2 s. 6 d. for food and 8 s. for drink, and grudgingly extending the …
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