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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… died c. 1683. Some of the Wilton clothiers were also wool producers; local supplies of wool, even if insufficient to meet the needs of the textile …
A History of the County of Somerset
… in 1713 41 but the most important occupations were wool, silk, and linen weaving. Broadweavers and woollen … or later. Linsey weavers, using a mixture of linen and wool, were said to be poor and were accused of encouraging employees of wool and linen weavers to steal yarn for them. 52 During the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… III. having made Winchester a staple for the sale of wool, the merchants erected large warehouses for conducting … for sacking, and a little business is carried on in wool-combing. A canal from Woodmill, about two miles above …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… though in 1346 London merchants are mentioned as buying wool from the bishop. 13 York, Beverley, Lincoln, Leicester … it is probable that the northern cities may have sent wool and hides, though Hampshire and the neighbouring … contributors and even from the Cotswolds and Hereford wool may have been sent. 16 The West countrymen 17 possibly …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… presented Richard Denmead for having unjustly carried away wool of various colours to the value of 25 d., 149 and … the twenty-four, the four common auditors, two weighers of wool, two 'cadaveratores,' two testers of woad, wardens of … appear three 'scrutatores' and one sealer 184 of skins and wool, two testers of ale, five porters of the five gates of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… of Salisbury. Two-thirds of the great tithes of corn, wool, and lambs, belong to the vicar of Chipping-Campden, in …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… to include East Burton, but this is now in the parish of Wool. Winfrith Newburgh village, the original settlement, … all on the edge of the heathland near the Dorchester-Wool road, and Broomhill (1227) in the extreme N. of the … East Burton (1210) on the S. bank of the Frome, and now in Wool parish, was another. The parish church and Winfrith …
A Dictionary of London
… Gate See Wolsies Gate. Wolhouse See Woolhouse. Wolkaye See Wool Quay. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… augmented. The main exports are corn, rape-seed, long wool (of which great quantities are sent to the clothing …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… colza crop, planted to provide lamp oil and also used in wool manufacture, totally lost. 50 Damage on a similar scale …