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A History of the County of Sussex
… merchandise was recorded in the parish c. 1260, 2 and a wool merchant c. 1330. 3 The only other tradesmen mentioned …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… Ion, minister 1724 Mr. George Hilton sold the tithe of wool and lamb, modus and composition for tithes of wool and lamb arising from lands and tenements in … chattels, waifs, strays, royalties and the tithes of wool; subject to a yearly chief rent of 8d. to the earl of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… than 3000 persons, and consuming weekly about 200 packs of wool. The charter continued in force for some years, and … now employed averages only about 1000, but the quantity of wool consumed annually, which is 10,000 packs, is nearly the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 125 a year. 68 In 1841 the mill house was occupied by a wool carder, and in 1861 the mill was a woollen-mop factory, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… then slightly higher. 4 Buoyed by the presence of wealthy wool merchants and by a growing manufacturing industry the … cloth manufacture from the 1460s, 16 Witney was attracting wool merchants of whom some, in wealth and size of operation, … rates. 77 Several of the poorer Witney weavers owned cards and spinning wheels, 78 and in 1632 a female Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… about 1670 that it be confirmed for cattle, sheep, wool, and other commodities, 25 and in 1673 it was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Thirteenth-century names, 11 combined with references to wool merchants and fulling mills, 12 suggest early textile … in 1279 had 11 houses and 45 a. of assart, was a wealthy wool merchant who also rented demesne pasture and local … not be exaggerated. Textile-manufacture and trade in wool evidently continued, albeit at a reduced level, 40 while …
A History of the County of Oxford
… links were further reflected in the industry's wool supplies, drawn in the late 1830s partly from Russia and … was the leather industry, still closely associated with wool supply, and including tanning, shoemaking, and … in the early 19th century were farmers, maltsters, and wool-dealers, and who also founded Clinch's bank. 60 A …
A History of the County of Oxford
… and Cogges were established probably about 1690 28 by the wool- and cloth-merchant William Blake (d. 1695), resident … company attended a course there organized by the Wool Industries Training Board, and during the recession of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… rapid partial recovery perhaps based partly on the town's wool trade. 37 During the 15th century the town seems to have … particular benefited from close links both with Cotswold wool-producing areas and with London. Water transport seems … mid 17th century and presumably on or near the site of a wool hall, lay at the town's north end near Newland, 241 …