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A History of the County of Oxford
… later 16th century, most of them for small labourers' or weavers' cottages. In 1577 the bailiffs allowed a broadweaver … western part seems to have long remained a suburb of small weavers, craftsmen, and labourers, some of whom rented from …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at No. 34 Corn Street; that is typical of the period, in Flemish bond with burnt headers. The ready availability of … Buswells Row or Lowell Place, including, besides blanket weavers, such skilled workers as two power-loom tuners, a … built or extended in 1825, 158 accommodated 52 hand-loom weavers in 1838. 159 A factory immediately west of No. 34 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… economic self-regulation through the newly founded Blanket Weavers' Company. 22 By then, however, vestry government was … inspectors, above (parish govt.). Rep. Assistant Hand-loom Weavers Commrs. (Parl. Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), pp. 5512; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… early 18th century included prosperous clothiers, master weavers, blanket-makers, fullers, maltsters, and other … manufacturers and tradesmen, among them the master blanket-weavers Jeremiah Biggers, Thomas Early, and James Marriott, …
A History of the County of Essex
… by N. Corsellis. 62 The iron parish chest is probably Flemish, possibly a dower chest. 63 The octagonal, …
A History of the County of Essex
… to mariners, fishermen, and oyster dredgers, with a few to weavers outside the parish in the 17th and 18th centuries, …
A History of the County of Essex
… to Nicholas Corsellis (d. 1665), a London merchant of Flemish immigrant descent. 1 Thereafter it descended in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… early English style, with a square tower surmounted by a Flemish spire, and has 1000 sittings, of which 400 are free; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and 1327, and in 1457 four members of the Oxford guild of weavers and fullers lived in Wolvercote. The field name …