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A History of the County of Oxford
… the Colliers of Witney, perhaps the clothier John Collier (fl. 156594), sold 30 blankets to the earl of Leicester, then …
A History of the County of Oxford
… town; among them may have been the young Thomas of Witney (fl. 1300), an influential master mason who later worked at … woolmen in the early 15th century included John Hood (fl. 141234), a subsidy commissioner and possibly a merchant …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were made in the north and north-east. 31 Population In 1086 some 47 tenant-households were recorded on Witney manor, … emerges from the Domesday description of Witney in 1086, when the estate's five-ploughland demesne must have … house) formerly owned by the clothier Thomas Randall (fl. 1695). 244 Other inns occupied plots created more …
A History of the County of Oxford
… one 'Mr Piesley', possibly the clothier Richard Peisley (fl. 1640). 322 The town as a whole was neither staunchly …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Witney (appointed in 1262), Richard the chaplain (fl. 1279), possibly the same as Richard Lambert who resigned in 1306, and Richard Dormer (fl. 1330s); of those, Lambert belonged to a prominent family …
A History of the County of Essex
… and other estates ECONOMIC HISTORY. Between 1066 and 1086 the number of bordarii increased from 6 to 20 which … suggest incipient urban or port development, but between 1086 and 1327 Wivenhoe apparently remained comparatively … 1 Eighteenth-century shipbuilders included Will- iam King (fl. 1722), and Austin Stanley who was operating from a …
A History of the County of Essex
… presumably heads of households, which increased to 28 by 1086. 25 By 1377, when 167 people paid the poll tax, Wivenhoe …
A History of the County of Essex
… estate of 5 hides less 15 a. held in 1066 by Alvric and in 1086 by Nigel as a tenant of Robert Gernon. 92 After Robert …
A History of the County of Oxford
… along the streams of the Thames in the south and west. In 1086 there were 120 a. of meadow, excluding Port Meadow which … 99 The pasture 6 furlongs by 3 ½ furlongs recorded in 1086 presumably included the later Wolvercote Moor and Hurst, … the leys not by further conversion from the arable. 1 In 1086 Wolvercote was said to contain land for 6 ploughteams …