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A History of the County of Oxford
… and a few cattle 'in the close'. 5 An averagely prosperous weaver, with goods (including his own loom) worth 31, left …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and by occasional references in wills, as when a Witney weaver left bequests to his 'natural mother' in Feckenham … partly for wages. Some had their own looms, among them a weaver with goods worth 8 in 1560 who had built his own, 61 … 92 Even lesser craftsmen sometimes kept sheep, a narrow-weaver in 1621 (with possessions worth 31) having a flock of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… for some 40 per cent of recorded occupations. 54 A Witney weaver was mentioned in 117980, suggesting that cloth …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… local attorney and of a brewer, shoemaker, and journeyman weaver, were educated free of charge; an amendment to the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to glaze more than a few windows, 54 while in 1596 a weaver had glass worth 1 s. 1 d. in his hall, even though his … in the 16th century, among them 'tables and bottoms' in a weaver's hall in 1596. 77 Tables with fixed legs seem to have … failures, and, possibly, plague. 297 In 1596 a Witney weaver reported that there were 'a great sort of good fellows …