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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in Brinkworth: John Clarke had 24 yd. of fine woollen cloth and 7 yd. of coarse cloth at Brinkworth in the earlier 16th century, 179 Robert …
A History of the County of Oxford
… neglect is shown by the order to provide a new cushion and cloth for the reading desk, and clear away from the walls … maids' of Britwell Salome and Britwell Prior with a cloth gown and an ell of linen cloth yearly on St. Matthew's Day. 242 The charity was still …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… unlikely that Brokenborough shared much in the Malmesbury cloth industry, but a weaver and a wool spinner were …
A History of the County of Somerset
… of whom 57 were engaged in agriculture. 110 There was some cloth making in the late 17th century. In the 1680s there … overseers, whose accounts survive from 1795, distributed cloth, clothing, and pairs of cards for carding wool. In 1800 …
A History of the County of Worcester
… mentioned as one of the towns in Worcestershire in which cloth was permitted to be manufactured, 41 and a flourishing trade in narrow cloth and friezes then existed, and continued till towards …