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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… the screen and forming a two-centred arch. Fittings Altar-cloth: Of white linen, with worked inscription: "Lord have …
A History of the County of Oxford
… The number of mills varied with the fortunes of the local cloth industry, 3 but all four sites were associated with cloth manufacture at various times, and from the early 19th … reflecting apparent contraction in Witney's developing cloth industry. In the early 14th century Woodford and Waleys …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century Witney's economy was dominated by its expanding cloth industry, already unrivalled within the county and … fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained the range … of recorded trades in the borough were associated with the cloth industry, with small artisans, retailers, and building …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its economy were apparently contracting, notably the local cloth industry and trade at the market and fairs; other … difficulties, but from the mid 15th century the local cloth industry developed rapidly, with some leading clothiers … decline in trade at Witney's market and fairs and in local cloth manufacture. Market and fair tolls, already variable …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the mill about 1808, acquired some notoriety among local cloth-workers for his innovations, and following a fire in … Witney Mills (1898): copy in Bodl.; above (organization of cloth and blanket ind.). Pigot's Lond. & Prov. Dir. (18234); …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were established probably about 1690 28 by the wool- and cloth-merchant William Blake (d. 1695), resident lord of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed … in Burford, Bicester, or Eynsham, though by then the local cloth industry was expanding and population was probably … and from the Middle Ages to the 19th century the local cloth industry in particular benefited from close links both …
A History of the County of Oxford
… three looms and goods valued at 121 (including wool and cloth worth 95), his net assets after payment of debts came … chambers. 105 Besides clothiers' stock-in-trade and cloth workers' tools (including tuckers' shears and … working-class tenements -included eleven labourers, nine cloth-workers, four masons, a variety of other workers, and …