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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… of DOZEN Sources: Inventories (mid-period), Tradecards. Wool comb [woole combe; woll combe; wole comb; combes for wool] Sometimes abbreviated to COMB as in 'one pare of … to comb the long fibres out of the fleece of COMBING WOOL. Once prepared, this was called COMBED WOOL, and was …
Alumni Oxonienses
… July, 1665, aged 16. Woolley.. See also Wolley, page 1668. Wool(le)y, John of London, gent. Brasenose Coll., matric. 21 …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in its fenestration. Opposite the mill stands a round wool-drying tower. A classical garden-house, built c. 1720, … with the Atcombe estate and in 1838 was being run as a wool-shop in conjunction with Frogmarsh Mill. 64 By 1863 the … when the building contained a waterwheel but was used as a wool warehouse. 92 The 19th-century mill buildings had been …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… bars. Queen Elizabeth, among other privileges, granted a wool-staple, of which there are no remains, and a market to …
A History of the County of Oxford
… half of the Woodstock Arms and behind it stood the town's wool barn, usually excepted from leases of the plot in the … the site of no. 7 High Street, which may have replaced the wool barn. 39 In 1813 Halls' Oxford Brewery became lessee of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… century and Park Street by the 18th. 39 The 15th-century Wool Market or Woolmarket Street was the later Market Street. … century the hog market was in Market Street between the wool market on the west and the beast market, 66 which … house, in front of the church, the town's late 16thcentury wool barn behind the later Woodstock Arms, 90 Penniless Bench …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of Eynsham abbey, and may have been engaged in the wool trade. 84 The mercer John Wallis (fl. 1498) probably … 86 and the proportion of the market area devoted to wool and the number of mercers and drapers suggest that the wool and cloth trades were important. In the 1550s a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Woodstock a staple town briefly stimulated the local wool trade, and in 1585 the town acquired a grammar school. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… of royal patronage the Act allowed free trading in wool and yarn within the borough. 15 In 1581 a bill to … the Act of 1576 were invoked in 1602 in a dispute over wool buying with the Crown patentee Sir Edward Hoby 17 but … 1572. He provided the drive and funds to establish the new wool market, lending 80 to the corporation, but soon aroused …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… E. division of Somerset; containing 132 inhabitants. Wool (Holy Rood) WOOL ( Holy Rood), a parish, in the union of Wareham and … ancient site. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Wool-Lavington, East and West WOOL-LAVINGTON, EAST and WEST, …