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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the peculiar properties of the water of the Windrush. The weavers were incorporated in the tenth year of the reign of … Master, Assistants, Wardens, and Commonalty of Blanket-Weavers inhabiting in Witney, in the county of Oxford, or … producing about 135 per annum, for sons of journeymen weavers; and the same benefactor erected almshouses for six …
A History of the County of Oxford
… (d. 1724), founder of a school for sons of journeyman weavers, 5 left money to build an almshouse for six widows to … Holloway's endowment of the Bluecoat school for journeymen weavers' sons in 1724, which included provision for clothing …
A History of the County of Oxford
… or livestock, and the small Corn Street plots on which weavers' cottages were built in the 16th century had little … intro. (origins and devpt). Rep. Assistant Hand-Loom Weavers Commissioners (Parl Papers 1840 (639), xxiv), p. 552. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the mid 18th century to the Collins family, local blanket weavers, 38 and in 1808 John Collier of Hatton Garden (Mdx.), …
A History of the County of Oxford
… than Banbury. 8 New building, much of it cottages for weavers and other small craftsmen, suggests an expanding … replaced by smaller but still wealthy clothiers and master weavers more directly involved in local manufacture. 24 … petitioned the House of Lords specifically as blanket-weavers, 35 though not until the 1680s did they begin …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 1270s. 57 Surnames suggest the presence in the town of weavers, fullers, quilters, nappers, and dyers, 58 and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the largely contemporaneous gathering of hand-loom weavers into factories, and the consequent replacement of large numbers of small master-weavers by a few dominant family firms with sufficient … which could be operated by one rather than two weavers, were introduced around 1800, reportedly by one of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… employed over a thousand in 1937, when most of the 400 weavers were women, many of them from outside the town. 5 By … World War when the main firms operated 475 looms with 322 weavers, 7 and presumably large numbers were employed in … 'Cotswold Woollen Ind.' 360. ORO, B1/PL/EB/2, summary of weavers employed Aug. 1949. Plummer and Early, Blanket …
A History of the County of Oxford
… endowed in 1724, catered expressly for sons of journeymen weavers and avoided exclusive Anglican links, while a growing … to education, particularly by the principal manufacturers: weavers were reported to be 'anxious for the education of … School A school to teach twelve sons of journeyman weavers reading, writing, and accounting, with a view to them …
A History of the County of Oxford
… later 16th century, most of them for small labourers' or weavers' cottages. In 1577 the bailiffs allowed a broadweaver … western part seems to have long remained a suburb of small weavers, craftsmen, and labourers, some of whom rented from …