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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1000 persons: the principal manufactures are broad-cloth and kerseymere, there being in and near the town eight …
A History of the County of Essex
… not set up in the church and in 1608 there was neither cloth nor cushion for the pulpit. 79 By 1633 the church needed a new communion table, a decent cloth for the table, and a hood for the rector. 80 Gregory …
A History of the County of Essex
… the parish probably grew in the later middle ages as the cloth industry developed. Thirty men in 1524-5 were assessed … both the water mills in the parish being used for fulling cloth in the 15th century and later. 93 West Bergholt joined … in 1557 exempting them from an earlier Act confining cloth production to towns. 94 In 1602 three men were …
A History of the County of Essex
… who in 1507-8 sold the manor to John Abell, a Nayland cloth- maker. 24 John Abell (d. 1524) left the manor to his …