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A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's … shoemakers and glovers): PRO, HO 107/1731; below. A. M. Taylor, Gilletts, Bankers at Banbury and Oxford (1964), 1589. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: trade and industry 1900-1945 TRADE AND INDUSTRY 19001945 During the earlier 20th century … cent.). Kelly's Dir. Oxon. (1899 and later edns); E. B. Taylor, 'Bartlett Bros Ltd' [ c. 1962]: photocopy in COS; M. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the … nos. 3, 6. Witney Ct. Bks. p. lxxiii, refs. at p. 256. J. Taylor, Carriers Cosmographie (1637), s.v. Witney; N. H., …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials In the 1640s Witney was … the largest houses in the town in 1583 was that of Thomas Taylor, yeoman, whose assets totalled 408. He had …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group … A partial recovery began under the Baptist minister Thomas Taylor, associated with Witney from 1800 and pastor from 1806 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… granted to the family of Clare, who gave the manor and church to Tintern Abbey, together with several granges … Wye the parish is bounded by a range of limestone hills, and towards the Severn by a rich vale of red marl; it is … The Court, formerly the residence of the Attwoods, of Park Attwood, was almost destroyed by the parliamentarians after …
Alumni Oxonienses
… graduate), said to be S.T.D.; a minister in Salisbury, and at Newbury, Berks, ejected 1662 for nonconformity, … May, 1678, aged 17; his father governor of Windsor Castle, and knighted 20 May, 1660; brother of Edward. Woodcock, … 15, created B.D. 12 Sept., 1661; assistant to Dr. Jeremy Taylor when he taught school in Carmarthenshire; taught …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Brictric's estate at that time. 8 In 1297 50 a. of arable and small acreages of pasture and meadow were recorded on the manorial demesne, 9 which was … one of the higher lakes in Woodchester Park was marked by Taylor, Map of Glos. (1777), perhaps in error. O.S. Map 1", …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Woodchester Manor and other estates MANOR AND OTHER ESTATES. In the early 8th century a grant of 3 … Ibid. v, pp. 140-1. Dom. Bk. (Rec. Com.), i. 164, 170v.; Taylor, Dom. Glos. 161. Feud. Aids. ii. 244. Inq. p.m. Glos. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the road forming the parish boundary between Woodditton and Exning (Suff.). 9 Until the 19th century Woodditton's … Newmarket was separated from its parent parishes of Exning and Woodditton by stages: All Saints was created as a … R.C.H.M. Cambs. ii. 139-40, 143-4; V.C.H. Cambs. ii. 7-9; Taylor, Cambs. Landscape, 48-9. P.N. Cambs. (E.P.N.S.), 127. …