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A History of the County of Oxford
… of the market area devoted to wool and the number of mercers and drapers suggest that the wool and cloth trades … 1700 at least 15 were in distributive trades, including 8 mercers, 3 woollendrapers, 2 ironmongers, a grocer, a … cattle on his Hensington farm. 28 The later 17th-century mercers Thomas Sparrow and Alexander Johnson left personalty …