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A History of the County of Sussex
… in the 16th century there were tailors, 5 a weaver, 6 a cloth-worker, 7 and a clothier who bought cloth in London, 8 and in 1602 a shearman of West Tarring …
A History of the County of Sussex
… with rayed (not cruciform) nimbus, naked save for a loin-cloth; the face has been destroyed, the right hand points to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… from Rodley until c. 1920. 79 Westbury had a small cloth industry in 1608 when 21 weavers (four of whom were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… some of the income was spent in maintaining children of cloth workers at a technical school. In 1955 small sums of …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… of the Bradford Avon, Westbury emerged as a centre of the cloth industry of that region towards the end of the 15th … The effects of the depression which hit the broad cloth industry during the first quarter of the 17th century … its manufacture of medley cloths and abandon its old white-cloth export industry. 77 By the end of the century this had …