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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting
… been at one time a sort of exchange or meeting-place for wool merchants or staplers (Herbert's 'Antiquities of the …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… to them, in place of which he leaves a furrour of lambs-wool. The reversion of a tenement in Oldechaunge in the …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… 2 Thistles, now called "teasels," used for carding wool in the place of cards of iron, which were found less …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… various processes, and a small industry was established. Wool was bought or taken in exchange for cloth direct from … dyed, but by 1912 when the cloth had become fashionable, wool was being specially selected and part of it was dyed. …
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 … R. Soc.), 91. The West countrymen are usually called 'Cornish' in the accounts of the fair, but, as we might … no. 159326 (8 Henry Woodlock). Ibid. 35, no. 159355. The Cornish and Devonshire men then occupied the places formerly …
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 …