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Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Watch chain [watch-chain; watch chaine; chaines for watches] A CHAIN, usually made of metal (though some were of … Cover & Chaine' [Inventories (1646)]. However, since watches were particularly vulnerable to pick pockets and … Chains' stolen from a steel TOY maker were intended for watches [Newspapers (1790)]. Usually attached to the chain …