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A History of the County of Somerset
… 3 s. in silver three times a year, 6 ells of russet cloth at Christmas, 4 ells of linen cloth and 5 lb. of wool at Pentecost, and pasture for 2 cows. … and a woolcomber in 1705 are isolated evidence of the cloth industry in Huish. 138 Quarrying was carried on in the …
A History of the County of Durham
… at Skipbridge. There was formerly some weaving of linen cloth, and the red sandstone in the river bed was worked. 7 …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Bay, with 10s. per annum, to be applied to the purchase of cloth for the poor of this parish. Which land is now vested …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Sawston, and there is little employment in the parish. Cloth-making at Ickleton was probably on a very small scale. … 341 and there were weavers there in the 16th century. 342 Cloth-finishing was carried on at the Great Chesterford … the 18th and 19th centuries, 345 but the manufacture of cloth had probably ceased there by c. 1700. There were two …
A History of the County of Somerset
… but prison labour provided many of the new buildings, a cloth manufactory was set up, and tailoring and shoemaking …