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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… century and two-storied; it has a four-bay S. front of Flemish-bonded brickwork, patterned with blue headers and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and the gables at the back, which are constructed in the Flemish manner with skew butts dovetailed into the horizontal …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… window on both sides of the nave is late 15th-century Flemish glass; on the north is the Mocking, the Women on …
A History of the County of Sussex
… with 18th-century French boiseries, and the library with Flemish Gothic and Baroque carvings. 3 In the 1930s the house … by a smithy between 1826 and the early 20th century. 12 Weavers were also recorded in the 17th and 18th centuries. 13 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the peculiar properties of the water of the Windrush. The weavers were incorporated in the tenth year of the reign of … Master, Assistants, Wardens, and Commonalty of Blanket-Weavers inhabiting in Witney, in the county of Oxford, or … producing about 135 per annum, for sons of journeymen weavers; and the same benefactor erected almshouses for six …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (d. 1724), founder of a school for sons of journeyman weavers, 5 left money to build an almshouse for six widows to … Holloway's endowment of the Bluecoat school for journeymen weavers' sons in 1724, which included provision for clothing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or livestock, and the small Corn Street plots on which weavers' cottages were built in the 16th century had little … intro. (origins and devpt). Rep. Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners (Parl Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), p. 552. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the mid 18th century to the Collins family, local blanket weavers, 38 and in 1808 John Collier of Hatton Garden (Mdx.), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… than Banbury. 8 New building, much of it cottages for weavers and other small craftsmen, suggests an expanding … replaced by smaller but still wealthy clothiers and master weavers more directly involved in local manufacture. 24 … petitioned the House of Lords specifically as blanket-weavers, 35 though not until the 1680s did they begin …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 1270s. 57 Surnames suggest the presence in the town of weavers, fullers, quilters, nappers, and dyers, 58 and …