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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… it records as a privilege of the lord of the manor the power to levy 4 d. toll on foreign ships entering or leaving …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… Farm, house, about 1 m. S.W. of the church. a(49). Power's Hall, house and barns, about 1 m. W. of the church. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… one of them erected in 1838, employing 380 hands, with a power of 50 horses; the other in 1839, employing 400 hands, and having a power of 60 horses. A paper-mill, built on the canal in 1843, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1974, when the last of Early's traditional shuttle power-looms and spinning mules were replaced by modern …
A History of the County of Oxford
… prerequisites for cloth manufacture: sufficient water power to sustain numerous mills, including fulling mills; 50 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by hindering coal-supply, delayed the adoption of steam power: such disadvantages were cited frequently by promoters … or donkey-powered spinning factory on Corn Street. 14 Power-looms seem not to have been introduced until the late … the 1830s, but more often associated with introduction of power-weaving. 18 By the 1820s the number of substantial …