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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… Wadding [wading] Any loose fibrous materials such as WOOL, HORSEHAIR or COTTON WOOL for use as padding, stuffing, QUILTING, etc., …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to Leeds, and the trade is now mainly in corn, cattle, and wool. The shares of the original proprietors of the Tammy … any district of equal extent in the kingdom. The trade in wool is also very considerable; large quantities, the produce …
A Survey of London
… foure pence, in all 82.li. 3.s. Parish church of S. Mary Wool church.; Tronage or weighing of wool, caused the church to bee named Wooll church Haw.; … Next vnto this Stocks is the parrish church of S. Mary Wool church, so called of a Beam placed in the church yeard, …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… breed, and much attention is paid to their improvement; wool and sheep are, in fact, the principal articles exported, … which produce on an average between 800 and 900 stone of wool annually; and a few black-cattle are also reared. The …
Warborough (Including Shillingford)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… the most important local market, though cattle, corn, wool and other produce was traded also in the parish, in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… and a large herd of pigs. 27 The arrest of 10 sacks of wool at Warminghurst manor in 1341 28 may indicate sheep …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 16th century. 73 John Eyre, a Warminster clothier, bought wool worth £67 from John Thynne in 1548, 74 but the taxation … the finest variety, so that he was able to buy much of his wool locally, occasionally mixing Spanish wool with it for his better pieces. In addition to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… were sold occasionally, attempts to hold regular cheese, wool, cattle, and poultry markets failed. 82 By 1887 regular …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 29 Market stalls stood beneath it, and part was used as a wool hall. 30 It was a serious obstruction to the highway …
Warpsgrove
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… In the 1470s Sir William Stonor (d. 1494) was a prominent wool exporter, who may have contributed to or taken advantage …