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A History of the County of Oxford
… Reformers included William Leggatt, J. N. Godden, glove manufacturer, and G. G. Banbury, draper. Banbury campaigned …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 45 James Woodroffe, declared bankrupt in 1804, was an iron-manufacturer and dealer. 46 A blacksmith occurs in 1661, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in 1779. In 1803 it was owned by Edmund Woodroffe, iron-manufacturer, who was declared bankrupt and whose estates …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… were 380 looms, employing 8000 persons; on its decline the carpet manufacture was introduced, which, after flourishing …