The Devon Cloth Industry in the 18th Century
(Stanley D Chapman 1978) £5.00
Sun Fire Office inventories of merchants and manufacturer’s property, 1726-1770. The thousand or so entries in this volume add extensive detail to the basic framework identifying the families engaged in the trade and cloth manufacturing the county. Over 50 Devon towns and villages, and some adjacent parts of Somerset, involved in the woollen industry are represented.
159 pages.
