Barcheston Parish Register. Highlighted detail showing burial entry for Richard Hyckes. 1621

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Date:1559 - 1699 (c.)

Description:Barcheston Parish Register showing burial entry for Richard Hyckes. He set up the looms at Barcheston under the patronage of Ralph Sheldon with the assistance of Peter the Dutchman.

'Richard Hyckes died the [last day] of October and was buried the seconde of November anno domini 1621. Aged 97 or therabouts.'

[William Sheldon (c.1500 - 70) allowed Richard Hyckes, almost certainly a Flemish emigre, use of the manor house at Barcheston, rent-free provided he organized the weaving of tapestry, arras, moccadoes, carolles, plometts, grograynes, sayes and sarges. The first two are luxury furnishing items, the others a range of cloth fabrics.

Sheldon's attempt to introduce weaving techniques better known to Flemings than to Englishmen suggests he was trying to foster a new industry in an impoverished area.]


Timeline

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1550s
Barcheston Parish Register. Binding
Barcheston Parish Register. Binding

Barcheston Parish Register. Vellum binding

1570s
Wolfgangus Musculus, Common Places of Christian Religion -  binding.
Wolfgangus Musculus, Common Places of Christian Religion - binding.

Common Places of Christian Religion. Printed in London by Henry Bynnman, 1578. Gathered ...

1610s
John Jewel, A Sermon Made in Latine in Oxenford - binding
John Jewel, A Sermon Made in Latine in Oxenford - binding

A Sermon Made in Latine in Oxenford' etc. given by John Jewel, late bishop of Sarisburie: ...

1900s
Barcheston, Church font
Barcheston, Church font

Barcheston, Church Font.

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