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A History of the County of Oxford
… was occupied by a wool carder, and in 1861 the mill was a woollen-mop factory, with a resident foreman. 69 In the early …
A History of the County of Oxford
… firms together accounted for a quarter of the country's woollen blanket production. 7 A post-war boom, fuelled by …
A History of the County of Oxford
… its economic fortunes were closely linked to those of the woollen and cloth industries nationally, although it retained … Witney Ct. Bks. pp. xviiixix; cf. G. D. Ramsay, Wilts. Woollen Ind. in 16 th and 17 th Cents. (2nd edn 1965), 71 sqq. Ramsay, Wilts. Woollen Ind. 7184, 10121. ORO, MSS Wills Oxon., Witney …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 63 while a few years earlier a packhorse carrying dyed woollen cloth 'of diverse colours' was stolen on the road … P. Beckinsale, 'Factors in the Development of the Cotswold Woollen Ind.', Geographical Jnl. 90 (1937), 361; cf. R. Plot, … evidence) that a royal payment in 1221 was for purchase of woollen goods at Witney. Hants RO, 11M59/B1/10, m. 7d.; for …
A History of the County of Oxford
A History of the County of Oxford
… continued as a mail-order supplier of blankets, bedding, clothes, and footwear, moving in 1921 to a new factory at the … R. P. Beckinsale, 'Factors in Development of Cotswold Woollen Industry', Geographical Jnl. 90 (1937), 360; ORO, … Witney UDC III/ii/10a, f. 29; below. Beckinsale, 'Cotswold Woollen Ind.' 360. ORO, B1/PL/EB/2, summary of weavers …
A History of the County of Oxford
… ownership. A house and shop on High Street, sold by a woollen draper in 1576, occupied an irregular plot only 30 … P. Beckinsale, 'Factors in the Development of the Cotswold Woollen Industry', Geographical Jnl. 90 (1937), 361. Jenkins, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… such as those of Emmot Fermor (1501), 79 William Elmer, woollen draper (1591), Nicholas Gunn (1602, with goods … seem to have been chests and coffers, used for storage of clothes and valuables including documents: in 1633 papers … but on tables and cupboards. 102 Those engaged in the woollen industry needed to store and process raw materials …
A History of the County of Oxford
… well and pump and reserved access to the river for washing clothes, with use of hedges in an adjoining close for drying …