Quaere, if there are not also wooll-sacks in the pannells of glass?
[Of this house and family the reader will find many interesting
particulars in a volume by my friend the Rev. Edward Duke, of Lake
House, near Amesbury. Its title will explain the work, viz.
"Prolusiones Historic?; or, Essays Illustrative of the Halle of John
Halle, citizen and merchant of Salisbury in the reigns of Henry VI.
and Edward IV.; with Notes illustrative and explanatory. By the Rev.
Edward Duke, M.A., F.S.A., and L.S. in two vols. 8vo. 1837." (Only one
volume has been published.) - J. B.]
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The ancestor of Sir William Webb of Odstock, near Salisbury, was a
merchant of the staple in Salisbury. As Grevill and Wenman bought all
the Coteswold wooll, so did Hall and Webb the wooll of Salisbury
plaines; but these families are Roman Catholiques.
The ancestor of Mr. Long, of Rood Ashton, was a very great cloathier.
He built great part of that handsome church, as appeares by the
inscription there, between 1480 and 1500.
[William] Stump was a wealthy cloathier at Malmesbury, tempore Henrici
VIII. His father was the parish clarke of North Nibley, in
Gloucestershire, and was a weaver, and at last grew up to be a
cloathier. This cloathier at Malmesbury, at the dissolution of the
abbeys, bought a great deale of the abbey lands thereabout. When King
Henry 8th hunted in Bradon Forest, he gave his majesty and the court a
great entertainment at his house (the abbey).
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