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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… the thread harder than usual in the spinning, enabled weavers to produce a woollen stuff of peculiar quality, to …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… name. Prayer-beads or rosaries. See note supra, p. 626. Weavers. Pottle or two quarts. Table-cloth. Hutch: a box or …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… G, fol. 285 b. 1 This street was much frequented by weavers in early times, and "cloths of Canwyke Street" were …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… and tenters was farmed by local clothiers 1 and to it the weavers of the neighbourhood brought their cloth to be … indeed at any period before then. Boys were apprenticed to weavers without at first any indication whether they were to … 5 by the end of the 17th century, when the clothiers and weavers of Wilton received their charter of incorporation in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… out, and from the 15th century occasional references to weavers 25 of Wilton have survived, although it is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… wool, silk, and linen weaving. Broadweavers and woollen weavers were at work throughout the 17th century supplying … clothiers 42 and in 1685 a worsted weaver, seven other weavers, four feltmakers, and two tailors were, with a … by the mid 17th century and flaxdressers and linen weavers produced ticking throughout the 18th century using …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… earliest trade gilds of Winchester were the fullers' and weavers' gilds, suggesting, as the fact was, that the cloth … the early years of the reign of Henry II both fullers and weavers rendered 6 pro gilda sua quite separately from the 20 marks of the Chapmans' Hall. 72 In 11656, however, the weavers began to pay 1 mark of gold (6) 'de Gersuma pro …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by a smithy between 1826 and the early 20th century. 12 Weavers were also recorded in the 17th and 18th centuries. 13 …