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A History of the County of Somerset
… A tucking-mill was working in the parish in 1715, and cloth was made on a small scale at the end of the century: …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… poor's close in Longworth to be given yearly in bread and cloth to the poor of Longworth and Draycot Moor.' The land is …
A History of the County of Somerset
… certainly sold in the 14th century, 123 and the origin of cloth manufacture in the parish can only be traced to the …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was mentioned in 1635, 151 a mason in 1638, 152 and a cloth-worker, obliged by his lease not to depart from the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… keeper of Ludgershall manor 151038, may have dealt in cloth. 266 The request of four Germans from Westphalia to … and in 1665 a Ludgershall tradesman issued a token. 269 Cloth was worked in Ludgershall in the 17th and 18th … inhabitants in spinning, 272 but c. 1757 no trace of the cloth industry remained. 273 A roper worked in Ludgershall in …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in Midgehall, suggesting a possible connexion with the cloth trade. 230 But no other evidence of a concern with this …