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A History of the County of Oxford
… bed nor cooking equipment, and seems to have been the equivalent of a later parlour; it would probably have been so … the east side of High Street in 1721, the Blanket Weavers' Company (founded 1711) met in a barn on the opposite side of … other outbuildings were to the rear. Following the Blanket Company's disbandment in 1847 the hall housed a brewery and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… self-regulation through the newly founded Blanket Weavers' Company. 22 By then, however, vestry government was … scale of business. The town was divided into wards, the equivalent of rural tithings, by the late 13th century, 32 … unenfranchised holdings according to borough custom, the equivalent of copyhold transfers in the manor court, with the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… London connections whose son became warden of the Blanket Company, and several members of the Early family were Quakers …
A History of the County of Essex
… Co. Ltd. New machinery and plant was introduced and the company enjoyed a decade of expansion, making many ships for … between 1966 and 1981 by J. Gliksten & Co., a timber company, for storing hard and softwoods from Scandinavia and …
A History of the County of Essex
… averaged £289 a year. 66 Expenditure rose to £845 in 1802, equivalent to c. 15 s. 6 d. per head of population, and then … rising again to range between £907 and £1,152 in 1817-21, equivalent to c. 16 s. a head, in 1821. 67 It fluctuated … system with Colchester's Hythe sewage works. 91 A gas company was formed in 1861, perhaps that described in 1878 as …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… water-works established under an act passed in 1845, by a company having a capital of 20,000. In 1847 an act was passed for uniting the former gas-light company with the new gas company. A public subscription library was founded in 1794, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… met the new line of navigation made by the Aire and Calder Company. The road from Doncaster, by Askerne, to Pontefract, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… system was laid, linking Priorslee and Snedshill with the company's other enterprises in the area. 87 From 1856 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… and Priorslee farms, which until then had supplied the company's managers with milk and potatoes on advantageous … became a partner in 1802, and were only brought into the company in 1807 when Bishton's sons and executors negotiated … worked on hot blast, and they effectively doubled the company's pig iron production capacity. In 1870 three of the …