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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… when in the settlement of a dispute between Bishop Hotham and Sir Geoffrey de Coleville over their manors of Wisbech and Walsoken, certain houses erected by the latter at his end … Grants of pontage were made to the bishop in 1327, 1328, and 1331. 56 References to bridges are frequent in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 79 A church, in Queen's Road, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Charles Borromeo, was built in 1854. 80 Gardner, Dir. …
A History of the County of Sussex
… WISTON Wiston parish 97 lies north of the South Downs, and is 4½ miles long from north to south and 1½ miles wide at its widest point. The ancient parish … only other tradesmen mentioned in the Middle Ages besides carpenters 4 and smiths 5 were a weaver and a 'ripier' or …
A History of the County of Oxford
… cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and marked, from the early 17th century, by increasing … The largest service trade was building, employing mostly masons and carpenters with a few plasterers, glaziers, and slaters. 205 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Economic history: medieval trade and industry ECONOMIC HISTORY Medieval Trade and Industry … metal-working (ironmongers and smiths), buildingwork (masons, carpenters, slaters, and plumbers), and victualling and food …
A History of the County of Oxford
… by mechanization, the introduction of the factory system, and the emergence of large commercial family firms. 1 The … the working population, by far the largest single group, 2 and in the 1880s the industry was still called the town's … included some thirty stonemasons and as many carpenters or joiners in the mid 19th century, with rather …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Oxford, originated as a planned medieval market town and borough, laid out by a bishop of Winchester in probably … From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed as the … occupied by dyers, broadweavers, glovers, butchers, and carpenters, while some others were owned and possibly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Introduction: Architecture and Buildings ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDINGS 1 Building Materials … -included eleven labourers, nine cloth-workers, four masons, a variety of other workers, and three paupers. In … quite look like his. The builders were apparently two Bath masons, James Gulliver and William Harris. 228 Vestry and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Witney borough Parish church and church life PARISH CHURCH AND CHURCH LIFE Origins and Status Though the existence of a … has parallels at Cogges and Ducklington, where the same masons may have been employed. The north-west chapel, called …
A History of the County of Oxford
… reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier tradition of local … accused of disseminating the scriptures in English and of questioning Catholic doctrine. Several of the group seem to have been associated with the cloth industry and to have had London trade links, those from Witney …