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THE PAUPEB AND THE PEASANT SPINNER. 249
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It Seems Probable That Poor Exi Law Regu...
art which lie had introduced continued however to flourish and give Nor did loymen improvement t to large res numbers t here . for the day of Eland ' s
manufacturing supremacy was now , beginning to dawn ng , and her ascendant starlike those of the " _- " Verpeja" Lithuanian
mythology was hung , upon a thread . formed But , it for - was native of a flax new and fibre hemp and that were this wool henceforth thread and of silk to destiny find yield in thei was it r
powerful place to the rival stranger . Not until Cotton the , seventeenth even century do we find a mention of cotton as a material for clothingfor though
t any he word occurs so early as 1430 in a list of articles , imported f el se than Genoa the , it mere is believed making that of it candle was long wicks emp and loyed even for if Mr ttle .
Baines' conjecture that the immigration of weavers _; to England caused by the Duke of Parma ' s taking of Antwerp , probably
to broug its h present t the first most cotton general cloth book weavers app alled lication here The has in 1585 been , no of discovered allusion affi
p fo p u rior r blished buy to in 1641 in t , when t year from in , the a Irelan industry d c " of " Man even chester Treasury cotton is commended wool Tr fro c m , "
g yarn , Its Smyrna use , and wever working was ' it then up bo still th for home limit use ed and and exportation it was some . "
time long ; er before it began to very take an t important , t place to as its a
rival to the other fibres , for the cost of ranspor , owing r requiring easonable * a stronger its than pressure could be to obt reduce ained its rior bulkiness to the inven within tion p
of roduced the hydra from ulic i p t wa s s , made inferior it dearer to linen than in flax conse , while uence the fabric of its p q
needing a firmer twist in spinning , so that when spun by hand , however if fine During it had was - the too so first increased loose half and in of flimsy importance the , i ei f g coars hteen as e t too h to heavy have tury . aroused _3 Cotton a
fierce prejudice ht in the other against material it in the which minds had of hitherto many of been those almost who
this wroug exclu occurs sively in em the ployed " -Gentleman for raiment ' s . Monthl A curious Intel illustration li" for of y gencer
Carmod May , 1784 y for , wh felony ere we , who find in an his account last dying of the speec execution h confessed of , one his it the of the
condition crime , but to excused which he himself had been for reduced on ground and which he was starving well assured caused by the discouragement , of our woollen
was manufa cotton . " ctures He therefore through a exhorted the pernicious all good practice Christians of wearing not to male
blood factors bring of their like every country himself felon to by they misery persisting hung and woul in make d such lie it at swarm a their custom with doors , or . t To he - '
VOL . XII . B
The Paupeb And The Peasant Spinner. 249
THE PAUPEB AND THE PEASANT SPINNER . 249
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/33/
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