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A History of the County of Oxford
… century the fulling mill copyhold became divided between female heirs of Richard Bishop, 22 and it descended in two …
A History of the County of Oxford
… weavers owned cards and spinning wheels, 78 and in 1632 a female Witney orphan was apprenticed by the town to learn … century and later were apprentices, though both male and female domestic servants were mentioned frequently in the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was 'primarily industrial', with a significant part of its female labour, particularly in the blanket factories and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… assistant masters, a visiting drill master, and a resident female music teacher, the school aiming in the 1880s to … dismissed for 'scandalous and reproachful actions' with a female pupil. 43 By then membership of the Witney meeting was … and vocational subjects; its students included male and female workers from Witney and Bridge Street Mills and local …
A History of the County of Oxford
… which springs from two half-figure corbels, also male and female; the whole is decorated with ballflower ornament. …