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A History of the County of Oxford
… 2 given in 1627 to 100 left by the wealthy landowner and farmer Richard Ashcombe in 1606, and by Henry Heylin of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… miller and of Curbridge; 34 he was, however, principally a farmer and timber dealer, and may have sublet the mills. Long …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the dyer Richard Humfrey (d. 1570), apparently a sheep farmer, 69 was the town's second wealthiest taxpayer in 1544 … to the Witney wool merchant Edward Wilmot. A Kelmscott farmer was owed payment from a Witney broadweaver for wool in … as were the fellmonger John Palmer (d. 1712) and the farmer John Harris (d. 1737). 214 There was also a small but …
A History of the County of Oxford
… who was typical of the sort of wool merchant and sheep farmer attracted to Witney during the later 15th century. The …
A History of the County of Oxford
… on out-workers, only the builder James Long and the farmer and woolstapler James Clinch employed twenty people or … and upholsterer with seven, and a butcher with eight. A farmer at Newland, with 10 farm workers, employed another 33 … in surrounding villages as well as in the town. 75 The farmer Samuel Shuffrey's tannery at Woodgreen, established …
A History of the County of Oxford
… messuage' occupied in 1590 by the wealthy fuller and farmer Thomas Box stood at High Street's north-east end …
A History of the County of Oxford
… thereafter parlours without beds became common, as in a farmer's house in 1678, those of a saddler and a clothier in …