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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 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Budd (d. 1623), with assets worth 104, owned two looms, wool, yarn, and finished blankets, but had household goods … leaving three looms and goods valued at 121 (including wool and cloth worth 95), his net assets after payment of … goods. 103 John Medhopp had a shop, warping chamber, and wool house in 1645, and Francis Bedford had the same in 1686. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were made to paupers on out-relief, and packs of yarn or wool were bought for spinning either in or out of the …
A History of the County of Essex
… were presumably kept originally for dairying as well as wool, as in other Essex marshland parishes where grazing in … there were 236 sheep on Wivenhoe manor and 166 fleeces of wool were sold, but the flock seems to have been shared with … economy in the 16th and 17th centuries, supply- ing wool for the cloth trade of Colchester and other towns, but …
A History of the County of Essex
… from Wivenhoe to London with cloth and returned with wool for the Colchester cloth industry. 11 Ships sailed to …
A Dictionary of London
… Wollechirchehaw - Wool Exchange Wollechirchehaw See Mary (St.) Woolchurch. Wollewharf See Wool Quay. Wolsies Gate A water gate in the roparie, in … in the maps and not definitely located. See Legates Inn. Wool Exchange On the east side of Basinghall Street at Nos. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… them, one with a flock of 19, the other with 10, had any wool. Mary Hall (d. 1715) had 27 cows and a bull, worth £108, … a fulling mill, as it was by 1616; a small amount of wool was taken in 1341 from John Cabbel of Wolvercote who had …