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The Domestic Economy of the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Holmfirth Textile Industry

David Hey University of Sheffield, UKView further author information
Pages 160-174 | Published online: 03 Dec 2013

  • Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield, I, 1274 to 1297, ed. W. P. Baildon, Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, 29 (1901), 19–21, 99.
  • Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield from September 1348 to September 1350, ed. H. M. Jewell, Wakefield Court Rolls Series, 2 (1981), 259.
  • G. Redmonds, Holmfirth: Place-Names and Settlement (Lepton, 1994), p. 30.
  • Although it was not recorded in Domesday Book, Scholes also had vill status in later times. See, for instance, The Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield from October 1664 to September 1665, ed. C. M. Fraser with K. Emsley, Wakefield Court Rolls Series, 5 (1986), 146, 153, 199, 206.
  • West Yorkshire: An Archaeological Survey to ad 1500, 4, ed. M. L. Faull and S. A. Moorhouse (Wakefield, 1981), map 27.
  • Yorkshire Archaeological Society, MD 225.
  • See, for instance, 1:25,000 O.S. map, sheet SE 10, 1955 edn.
  • A. H. Smith, The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, ii (Cambridge, 1961), 248.
  • Baildon, Court Rolls, p. 286.
  • West Yorkshire Archive Service, Kirklees, KC6, Kidd, Meller and Wood collection, survey of Upperthong, 1826.
  • The Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield from 1651 to 1652, ed. L. Robinson, Wakefield Court Rolls Series, 8 (1990), p. xiii.
  • Wakefield Manor Book, 1709, ed. J. Charlesworth, YAS Record Series, 101 (1939), 111–35, 176, 198–9.
  • The National Archives, DL/4/23.
  • TNA, C5/448/19.
  • Charlesworth, Wakefield Manor Book, 1709, pp. 111–35, 176, 198–99; YAS, MD 225.
  • The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, 3: Wiltshire-Yorkshire, ed. C. C. Fenwick (Oxford, 2005), p. 388.
  • Printed in D. F. E. Sykes, The History of Huddersfield and the Valleys of the Colne, the Holme, and the Dearne (Huddersfield, 1900), pp. 14–16.
  • Printed in Sykes, Huddersfield, pp. 194–5.
  • See the discussions of numbers of those exempt and the analysis of the recorded hearths in the introductions to West Riding Hearth Tax Assessment, Ladyday 1672, ed. D. Hey, C. Giles, M. Spufford and A. Wareham (London: British Record Society, 2007), pp. 11–79.
  • Baildon, Court Rolls, pp. 3, 235.
  • Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield, IV, 1315 to 1317, ed. J. Lister, YAS Record Series, 78 (1930), 20.
  • Redmonds, Holmfirth, pp. 48–9.
  • TNA, DL/4/76/17.
  • Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York: wills and inventories, Pontefract deanery, arranged in monthly boxes by the date that the will was proved (hereafter Borthwick probate).
  • ‘The Diary of Arthur Jessop’, in Two Yorkshire Diaries, ed. C. E. Whiting, YAS Record Series, 117 (1952), 9, 53–4.
  • H. Taylor, ‘The Nineteenth-Century Limekilns at Barnby Basin, South Yorkshire’, YAJ, 81 (2009), 311–28, shows how later Holmfirth farmers obtained lime that was brought up the Barnsley Canal, many miles to the east.
  • D. Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, ii (London: Dent, Everyman edition, 1962), 194–5.
  • Borthwick probate, June 1697; Jan. 1723/4; Mar. 1725/6.
  • Borthwick probate, May 1697; Jun. 1713; Jan. 1720/1; Sept. 1723; Oct. 1732; WYAS, Kirklees, KC6, probate records.
  • Borthwick probate, May 1697; Jun. 1697; Apr. 1700; Mar. 1703/4; Jan. 1720/1; Sept. 1723; Jan. 1723/4; Feb. 1727/8; WYAS, Kirklees, Kidd, Meller and Wood collection, probate records, 1754.
  • Borthwick probate, Sept. 1699; Jun. 1701; May 1722; Oct. 1724.
  • Borthwick probate, Nov. 1702; May 1707; Jul. 1690.
  • Borthwick probate, Feb. 1727/8.
  • Borthwick probate, Jul. 1734.
  • D. Hey, A History of Penistone and District (Barnsley, 2002), pp. 103–8.
  • H. J. Morehouse, History and Topography of the Parish of Kirkburton and the Graveship of Holme (New Mill, 1861), p. 29.
  • Borthwick probate, Jul. 1703; Mar. 1703/4.
  • W. B. Crump and G. Ghorbal, History of the Huddersfield Woollen Industry (Huddersfield, 1935), p. 31.
  • Borthwick probate, Jun. 1691; Jun. 1713; Jan. 1720/1.
  • Borthwick probate, May 1691; May 1697; Jul. 1702; Jun. 1704; May 1707; Jun. 1713; Aug. 1712; Jun. 1752. Buttock wool is presumably from the poorer-quality part of the fleece. Bracken wool had an orangey-brown shade resembling the colour of bracken in the autumn.
  • The Agrarian History of England and Wales, IV: 1500–1640, ed. J. Thirsk (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 503, 506.
  • Crump and Ghorbal, Woollen Industry, pp. 34–7.
  • Borthwick probate, Jul. 1734; Nov. 1720; Dec. 1753.
  • Borthwick probate, May 1734; Feb. 1691/2; Jun. 1700; Aug. 1712; May 1722; Sept. 1723.
  • Morehouse, Kirkburton, p. 31.
  • Borthwick probate, Sept. 1723.
  • Borthwick probate, May 1707, May 1691; Oct. 1696; May 1697; Jun. 1700; Jul. 1702; Jan. 1720/1; Oct. 1751.
  • Borthwick probate, Nov. 1702; Jun. 1727; Dec. 1703.
  • Borthwick Institute for Archives, R.VII.I.456.
  • D. Crossley, Post-Medieval Archaeology in Britain (Leicester, 1990), p. 217.
  • Hey, Penistone, p. 31.
  • Redmonds, Holmfirth, p. 27.
  • TNA, DL/4/37/47.
  • Borthwick probate, Oct. 1696; May 1697; May 1716; Nov. 1720.
  • Borthwick probate, May 1734.
  • H. Heaton, The Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted Industries from the Earliest Times up to the Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1965), pp. 359–82.
  • Borthwick probate, Aug. 1695; Jan. 1700/1; Jun. 1704; Dec. 1703; May 1722.
  • Borthwick probate, May 1734.
  • Borthwick probate, May 1691; Jul. 1702; Nov. 1720; Jul. 1757.
  • Sheffield Archives, map collection.
  • WYAS, Kirklees, KC6, Kidd, Meller and Wood collection, bill of sale.
  • E. Baines, History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, 1, West Riding (Newton Abbot: David & Charles reprint, 1969), p. 527.

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