Probably one of the wool merchants - like Clayda - could do it.
John Barton was a prosperous wool merchant who died in 1491.
Marriage and success in trade (probably as a wool merchant) brought him wealth.
The property was at one point the home of a wool merchant.
The first shop was opened at this location in 1668 by a local wool merchant.
He was a partner in a firm of wool merchants.
The former home of a leading wool merchant, it has been extended in keeping with its 17th-century façade.
Being solid wool merchants at heart, they are not sure what to make of an engine that runs on paper.
Now that would be the strangest of all, or I am a wool merchant!
It has so much atmosphere that one can almost see the medieval wool merchants going about their business.
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