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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 Topographical Dictionary of England
… are remarkable for longevity. The manufacture of silk, gauze, and shoes, and the malting and flour trades, are …
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 Oxford
… and 1327, and in 1457 four members of the Oxford guild of weavers and fullers lived in Wolvercote. The field name …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… also other golde & silver in papers & on quills, j pap' of silk buttons ij paire of sisers, & v working bodkins' all … Ages onwards. This association was promoted by worsted weavers who frequently marketed their cloths by claiming that … such as HALF WORSTEDs made with linen wefts or with SILK. Worsted cloth clearly appealed to foreign markets, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the inhabitants of the parish included 7 clothiers, 16 weavers, 5 tuckers, 3 dyers, and 2 millers, by far the … in 1838 37 and it is said to have been used later as a silk-mill and to have been demolished at the beginning of the … Woodchester, 42. G.D.R., T 1/201; Rep. Com. Handloom Weavers, p. 379. Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1863), 378; (1870), 678. …