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A History of the County of Oxford
… blue-dyed blankets and duffields were traded for beaver-skins with the native Americans of Virginia and New England, … poorer, one in 1695 leaving goods worth only 13 including skins, leather, and wool; 185 as such, he was closer to … velvet caps, gloves and women's mittens (including women's kid gloves), ribbons, stockings, handkerchiefs, tablecloths, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… scales. 66 By 1800 the bailiffs arranged for inspection of skins, appointed officers to prevent disturbances at the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… with steam-powered machinery for grounding and finishing skins. In the 1890s the factory specialized in officers' …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… from the living animal' and probably by extension to the skins from which it was taken. This would explain why wool fells were invariably associated with other skins as in 'all Sheep-skins, Wolfels, Shorlings, Morelings' [Acts (1562)], rather …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of wool, 1,660 large sheepskins, 33 buckskins, some 'soft skins' and white leather, and, in a limepit near the river, a … deer skin gloves continued to be made, but in 1839 no kid gloves, while cheaper tanned leather gloves, finished on …
Charters and Documents relating to the City of Glasgow 1175-1649
… paying any custom on goods and merchandise, to wit, wool, skins, hides, cloth, bread, fish, and other things, as well …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… have tanners and tawers, who manufacture the hides and skins produced in their respective neighbourhoods. To this …