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A History of the County of Surrey
… trade in West Surrey. The special manufacture was blue cloth, dyed, no doubt, with woad, licence to grow which was … growth of woad as prejudicial to her customs. 2 The blue cloth of Wonersh commanded a sale in the Canary Islands, …
A History of the County of Northampton
… box in which a human heart was found wrapped in a piece of cloth: Northampt. N. & Q. 18845, p. 75. The treble was added …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… never been other than a town on the smallest scale. The cloth industry of the 16th and 17th centuries made almost no … 229 Wootton Bassett lay towards the edge of Wiltshire's cloth manufacturing region but there was a fairly flourishing … of buying woollen yarn without intending to make it into cloth. 231 In 1631 Wootton Bassett was one of 14 Wiltshire …