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A History of the County of Gloucester
… of woodland and plantation in the parish. 24 Mills and the Cloth Industry. A mill was recorded at Woodchester in 1086. 25 The cloth industry appears to have been introduced by 1221 when … mentioned, 26 and in 1274 a fuller was recorded. 27 The cloth industry was subsequently the most important feature of …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… boundary follows the Nailsworth stream, on which several cloth-mills were built, and the southern boundary is formed …
A History of the County of Oxford
… clothes on Christmas day. 11 The distribution of Cary's cloth was regularly made, but by the later 18th century the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… number of mercers and drapers suggest that the wool and cloth trades were important. In the 1550s a Woodstock man who … John Bradshaw (d. 1614), mercer, sold large quantities of cloth, thread, and buttons, but also raisins, sugar, spices, … mercer, who sold a similar range of goods, including cloth valued at over 100, also had a tallow chandler's …
A History of the County of Oxford
… considering schemes to employ the poor in silk winding or cloth and blanket weaving. 53 By the 18th century the …