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THE SPINNING WHEEL. 97
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(Continued.) - Ii. The Spinning Wheel.
portation female of the mystery occupa of such tions and occupation . ar " ticles Their as of they silk yer making was manufactured granted * and other , and henceforth virtuous the
imfectl forbidden f E dward obeyed ; t " b , at for F the our similar t prohibition hRich petitions ard the seems wer Tliir e to d presented hav and e been Henry in but the the imper rei Sixth gns - ,
are exclusivel bu o t it no woul longer y d feminine appear from the that , occupa " silk silk t - working -women , since workm " , t hese anshi y then , bu ter t of ceased from memorials silk " to the be
men and women of the mystery and p . " In kind of Edward favour ; for the shown -in Fourth a s t tatute o working ' s time passed , however women in this occup , we monarch find ied in one pursui ' s striking reign ts , wh proof t his
forbids artificers to quit , at their own pleasure , the employ of any master with whom they might be engage in d , linen special excep t -
silk tion is If made the manners in behalf of of the females court working at that period extended , cloh , to or
the . artificersthis exception must have been of vital importance to the , _fr
sex . Hitherto lish wear Eng . The lishwomen efforts ' to s work force had the cultivation been almos of t flax entirel had y not for Eng
and succeeded even for in m home aking - it to any tion extent long an before article it of began commerce to be ; consump
o t enerall her y disp and laced inners by co t t ton prefer _, farmers , foreign had flax learn . At t to first prefer this onl was impor it crops had ted , begun in its t raw o be state broug , bu ht t we into find Eng tha t , before ready 1622 dressed , not , but y also some amount of manufactured linen had been
in the troduced inst even ers from for Germany it was more . This than , coun however terbalanced , gave no by holiday the com to
mencemen sp t of , our foreign trade in woollen cloth . Wool , our factured staple exp state ort , had for lon the g superior been returned skill o t f t he largel Flemings y in a manu th in
o m wea f H vin enry est g eemed and III . , attempts yeing than , caused had own occasional their work , produc that ly b thoug t ions made h to from be to so the proh much time ibit tthad
in man the varia w ufac earing bl t y ures very of were any soon but therefore to home be repealed -made carried . cloth Both on , l such ess linen for enac and pur men p woollen oses innin s of
and commerce weaving Even than a when sufficient as a domes the quantity t dawn ic emp of loy men an its export t , each own famil trade household y began sp pur to g -
poses cen concen tres . tra of te industry a grea , t er anx number ious w ere w t he kers legis round lature t some o preve few nt
an that ding ap in dwellers proach the rei t in o any towns of thing Phili from p like and using our Mary or present an even act being was " factory passed in possess system forbid io , " -
The Spinning Wheel. 97
THE SPINNING WHEEL . 97
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 97, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/25/
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