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A History of the County of Oxford
… 22 Cornhill, the former town hall, and Lloyd's (formerly Cobb's) Bank in High Street. There is also an 18th-century … a front apparently of rendered stone. Lloyd's (formerly Cobb's) Bank in High Street is also of brick, the ground … were well designed, for example the original building of Cobb's girth factory on the east side of the canal, a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… seem mostly to have been people of substance, and the Cobb family, prominent in the local weaving industry from … the meeting was already 'tainted with Arianism', and the Cobb family were certainly moderate Unitarians by the turn of … local government and three of them were members of the Cobb family, which seems to have been dominant in the affairs …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 58 but by 1785 there were only two, of whom one, Thomas Cobb, subsequently acquired the entire property as … by owner-occupiers, from over 50 a. (excluding Thomas Cobb's estate) to 25 a. Most strikingly, only about a quarter … were frequent changes in the breadth of cloth woven. 309 Cobb's factory for weaving, webbing, and horsecloths was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… My Life, 81; Banbury Guardian, 27 Oct. 1853. Edward Cobb provided a plot for their use adjacent to the new …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by a Mrs. Elmes, 82 and in 1723 it was leased to Thomas Cobb, weaver, already the occupant. 83 The Cobbs lived there … to be sold. In 1801 it was purchased by another Thomas Cobb, already the lessee. 84 Thomas Cobb mortgaged the estate in 1802 and experienced some …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the Banbury Freehold Land Society, which was backed by Cobb's Bank; many of the early houses built were middle-class …
A History of the County of Oxford
… attacked as the faction of the factory-owner and banker, Cobb, 60 an attack which was to be one of the staple … and a Unitarian, Thomas Tims, a solicitor, Timothy Rhodes Cobb, a partner in Cobbs' Bank and his family's girth-weaving …
A History of the County of Hertford
… brotherhood of St. John the Baptist at Berkhampstead. Mr. Cobb, in his History of Berkhamstead, shows that the … Angl. vi, 647. Watney, St. Thom. of Acon, 47. Ibid. 14. Cobb, Hist. of Berkhamstead, 82, 83, 85. See the full history … and Cal. of S.P. Dom. 161118, p. 552. Privately printed. Cobb, op. cit. 38. The writer has been unable to find this …
A History of the County of Hertford
… Herts. Nos. 7 and 9. The survey of the house is printed in Cobb's Hist. of Berkhamstead, 47. Close, 1651, pt. 21, No. 19. Ibid. 1657, pt. 5, No. 48. Cobb, op. cit. 48. Close, 1652, pt. 58, No. 15. Pat. 12 Chas. … 15 Edw. II, No. 19. Feet of F. Herts. Edw. II, No. 366. Cobb, Hist. of Berkhamstead; doc. in parish chest. Doc. in …
Old and New London
… The favourite localities of the Jew old-clothesmen were Cobb's Yard, Roper's Buildings, and Wentworth Street. "The …