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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… edns.); Harrod's Dir. Wilts. (1865); cf. above, Pewsey, trade and ind. Inf. from Mr. W. Davison, 2 Cuckoo's Knob. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and Birmingham canal and the Severn, and a considerable trade is carried on in hops, of which there are plantations … burning the limestone obtained at Witley Hill. Common rock-salt and a species of gypsum are found at Droitwich. … worked into bars, rods, sheet-iron, &c. The manufacture of salt, at Droitwich, is known to have been practised so eai-ly …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… together at the least and there being a smyth by his trade hath honestly endevored to mayneteyne himself his wief …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… to maintaine have served their apprentishipps to the trade of fishing and have noe other calling to maintaine them …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… noe meanes to maintaine so great a charge but by my poore trade of shoumakeing I brought the said child to the parish … out of yt but one half yeare, and that workeinge upon the trade of a weaver in another mans worke as a journyman, his … he for his owne part is very willinge to labour upon his trade to get his owne lyveinge soe longe as God shall geive …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… himself his wife and children but his daylye labour by his trade. And as dutye bindeth he will daylye pray for your …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… of losynge other mens goodes (he beinge a weaver by his trade) and whose house hath ben in the night broken, whereby …
Petitions to the Worcestershire Quarter Sessions, 1592-1797
… sight, which is extremely prejudicial to him, he being by trade a tayler. Your humble petitioner having labourer under …