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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the Ascension in addition to various cloths of gold and silk, some 500 ells of 'tele de Wilton'. 19 When the … out, and from the 15th century occasional references to weavers 25 of Wilton have survived, although it is …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire
… by two windows at the N. end. The walls, the yellow silk lining of which has recently been reinstated, are broken …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1713 41 but the most important occupations were wool, silk, and linen weaving. Broadweavers and woollen weavers were at work throughout the 17th century supplying … 44 A silkweaver was recorded in 1677. 45 In 1813 a silk mill was put up for sale and in the 1830s there was a …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the last few years has greatly declined: a branch of the silk manufacture has been introduced. The market is on … manufacture at present carried on are those of paper and silk, for the former of which there are two large mills in … the Church of England, is decorated with hangings of blue silk richly embroidered; the chair and canopy of state are …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… earliest trade gilds of Winchester were the fullers' and weavers' gilds, suggesting, as the fact was, that the cloth … the early years of the reign of Henry II both fullers and weavers rendered 6 pro gilda sua quite separately from the 20 marks of the Chapmans' Hall. 72 In 11656, however, the weavers began to pay 1 mark of gold (6) 'de Gersuma pro …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… pulpit made by Prior Silkstede, with the twisted skeins of silk in its tracery which he used as a play on his name. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… were transferred to Parson Drove and a chaplain, Adam Silk, licensed to celebrate in both chapels. 21 In 1487 the …
A History of the County of Sussex
… 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 …