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A History of the County of Chester
… limited quantities of lead and iron, clothing, woollen cloth from Yorkshire and Lancashire (the latter 'cottons'), … Ireland also included small-scale imports of wool, woollen cloth, linen yarn, and linen cloth. 8 Quantities of the last … importers did extensive business at Chester's Michaelmas fair, 11 which required a succession of ever-larger linen …
A History of the County of Chester
… by the Drapers' attempts to monopolize the sale of cloth. 10 After a lengthy agitation, wheelwrights were … of 1650, which caused cancellation of the Michaelmas fair, also led the authorities to impose constraints on corn … the Irish trade remained at a low ebb: small quantities of cloth and larger cargoes of wool were exported; hides, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
A History of the County of Gloucester
… had an agency at Frankfurt am Main for the export of cloth to Germany. 24 In the earlier 16th century the … the city had three fairs within its limits, a three-day fair in March, the ancient Midsummer fair lasting seven days, … the common council denounced the sale of linen and woollen cloth and other merchandise in city inns and other houses 79; …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was very scant for poor people, very small utterance of cloth by reason of the wars in Flanders'; some folk claimed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… asking him to prevent Londoners coming to St. Frideswide's fair without certificates confirming that their houses were … on local consumption. There was little primary industry in cloth and leather: weaving, fulling, and tanning, so … and foods, but the mercers and drapers concentrated on cloth, while chandlers specialized in candles. William …