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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 …
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 …