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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… dates from the Anglo-Saxon period, for conditions of local trade, as shewn above, were exceptionally favourable. 1 The … waylaying merchants going to Salisbury and forcing them to trade in the Wilton market, the Wilton men, on the other … again in the 17th century, above all in the clothing trade, caused the mayor and burgesses to petition for a …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… borough to specify them when Wilton merchants wanted to trade with other towns, in order to ensure that they were … parliamentary burgesses and kept as tight a hold over the trade and industry of the town as the Guild Merchant had done …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilton Medieval trade and industry MEDIEVAL TRADE AND INDUSTRY The economic importance of Wilton in the … exempting the burgesses from financial exactions on their trade with other towns can only have set the seal on an …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to apprentice some of the sons of poor men to the textile trade, but there was not always sufficient employment in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… outfit for persons under twenty-one entering service or a trade or other occupation; thirdly, to supply clothes, linen, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… ha. (247 a.); over half had fewer than 30 ha. (74 a.). 39 Trade and industry The name Rack Haies, recorded in 1558, … themselves as former weavers. 57 The retail cloth trade also flourished during the 17th and 18th centuries with … 14; S.R.O., Q/AB 18; Kelly's Dir. Som. (1902); above, trade and industry. Kelly's Dir. Som. (1902-39); Bowden, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to the inhabitants; but in the 12th of Charles I., the trade being restrained, the plantations were neglected. The … reign, by which its harbour was destroyed, and its trade annihilated. Arms. Corporation Seal. Obverse. Reverse. … erected large warehouses for conducting that lucrative trade, and the city began to recover its commercial …
Survey of London
… of the Estate is the principal centre of the Ironfoundry trade in London." 83 Some portions of the estate were sold …