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A History of the County of Somerset
… work throughout the 17th century supplying several local clothiers 42 and in 1685 a worsted weaver, seven other …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… included at least thirty 'fenestrae' or windows. But the clothiers were not the only Londoners present, for in a deed … delivered instead at Winchester Fair. At the same time the clothiers of York and Beverley were to provide thirty cloths … of 1563 settled that 'no occupier or artificer other than clothiers and such as belong to cloth making and working …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and one from Curbridge, with preference given to widows of clothiers or blanket-makers. 6 The houses, to include an … thirty endowed charities were established by prosperous clothiers, tradesmen, and farmers or by their widows; most … certainly some recipients, including several mercers and clothiers, seem scarcely to have been 'poor'. In 1682 the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… while in the 16th and 17th centuries many leading clothiers, woolmen, and fullers were sheep farmers on a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… broadly comparable with the well known entrepreneurial clothiers of Suffolk, Wiltshire, and Berkshire. 17 Thomas … from Witney, to be replaced by smaller but still wealthy clothiers and master weavers more directly involved in local … a new fulling mill in Hailey. 27 Other leading fullers or clothiers acquired mills in surrounding villages: the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… local cloth industry developed rapidly, with some leading clothiers operating on a national or international scale. … 47 The appearance in Witney of dominant wool merchants and clothiers may nevertheless have failed to revive general … Fermor, and it is notable that prominent Witney woolmen, clothiers, and demesne lessees, among them Fermor's relative …