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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… he leaves six shillings and eightpence and a kyrtill of Blanket; and to twenty men and women of the hermit order, to …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… ray cloth and furred, a red coverlet with white roses, a blanket and sheets. His tenement in the lane called …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… a piece of coloured cloth for a coat, a piece of blanket for a corset, and a piece of linen for two chemises. …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Monday next after the Feast of S. Leonard, Abbot [6 Nov.]. Blanket (John), skinner, of the parish of S. Swithin.To be …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of "the Master, Assistants, Wardens, and Commonalty of Blanket-Weavers inhabiting in Witney, in the county of … over the registration-district of Witney. A handsome blanket-hall was erected in 1721: the town-hall is a neat … the same benefactor erected almshouses for six widows of blanket-weavers, and assigned to them land worth 85 a year. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Curbridge, with preference given to widows of clothiers or blanket-makers. 6 The houses, to include an upper and lower … be at least 50 years old, with preference still given to blanket-workers, but were chosen irrespective of their … a new Congregationalist chapel and endowing clothing or blanket charities. 8 By his will (dated 1827) the almshouses …
A History of the County of Oxford
… worth 6 and malt worth 1 5 s., and in 1719 the wealthy blanket-maker John Wiggins had a ground of barley worth 18. 6 … in the face of opposition from local farmers. In 1838 the blanket-maker John Early claimed that 'most of the men' had … Local Hist. vol. 2, no. 3 (1985), 76; Plummer and Early, Blanket Makers, 1502; PRO, HO 107/1731 (Hailey census, s.v. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… succeeded in the main lease, perhaps in the 1820s, by the blanket manufacturer John Early, presumably John Early (d. 1862). When the corn mills were converted to blanket making is not certain, but by 1830 John Early and Co. … let by the mid 18th century to the Collins family, local blanket weavers, 38 and in 1808 John Collier of Hatton Garden …