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A History of the County of Oxford
… its economy were apparently contracting, notably the local cloth industry and trade at the market and fairs; other … difficulties, but from the mid 15th century the local cloth industry developed rapidly, with some leading clothiers … decline in trade at Witney's market and fairs and in local cloth manufacture. Market and fair tolls, already variable …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the mill about 1808, acquired some notoriety among local cloth-workers for his innovations, and following a fire in … Witney Mills (1898): copy in Bodl.; above (organization of cloth and blanket ind.). Pigot's Lond. & Prov. Dir. (18234); …
A History of the County of Oxford
… were established probably about 1690 28 by the wool- and cloth-merchant William Blake (d. 1695), resident lord of the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… From the 17th century it became widely known for its cloth and blanket industry, and after 1945 it was developed … in Burford, Bicester, or Eynsham, though by then the local cloth industry was expanding and population was probably … and from the Middle Ages to the 19th century the local cloth industry in particular benefited from close links both …
A History of the County of Oxford
… three looms and goods valued at 121 (including wool and cloth worth 95), his net assets after payment of debts came … chambers. 105 Besides clothiers' stock-in-trade and cloth workers' tools (including tuckers' shears and … working-class tenements -included eleven labourers, nine cloth-workers, four masons, a variety of other workers, and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 17th century came to nothing, though from 1711 the cloth industry secured economic self-regulation through the … was mentioned in 1589, and a bread-weigher in 1607. Two cloth-searchers or sealers and, from the 1540s, two … the 1560s and 1570s, while the clothier Nicholas Gunn was cloth-searcher from the 1570s to 1590s. 46 Following the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… seal and who was frequently associated with medieval cloth or textile guilds. 74 A 14th-century crypt and chapel …
A History of the County of Oxford
… late 17th century, reflected the experience of many small cloth towns, 1 and may have had its origins in an earlier … Several of the group seem to have been associated with the cloth industry and to have had London trade links, those from …