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THE EARLIER CLOTHIERS' ESTABLISHMENTS. 1...
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personall from Jack acquainted of . _Newbury Some and Ms time soverei after gn their having interview " become the
y . , left prohibition the clothiers of any with dealings much with of France their , stock on account on their of the hands war ,
had to be reducedand half the workpeople were thrown , numbers chief wages out of clothing emp of loy workers , ; towns whereupon , ordinaril with , Jack a view engaged sent to a collect circular in inning statistics letter to weaving all of the the
& c . which it was found amounted y in all to sp sixty thousand , , six , petition hundred , that . for the Arm free welfare ed -trade with of with these so France formidable depended , on which figures and thoug he , he could h got opposed up thus a
by spoken prove Wolsey Jack , who the was king actu - had ated many not by forgotten personal , what dislike had to passed the free at
_-Newbury , and , thus the boon sought was at last , obtained , and trade once more revived . that the
This dependence upon the foreign market shows entirel cloth produced for the in these lof large home manufactories tionthat was b by eing no probabl mean y s
limited y to the wealthier suppy classes consump or at the utmost , to the dwellers in townsfor Morison tells us , concerning the apparel of the
sixteenth ; century , that husbandmen weare garments of course cloth made at homeand their wives weare gowns of the same ,
would and in also general their to , linnen have been is course onlwool and made that was at home at all . " thus It y
gav also deal e t to emp with the loym numerous by appear ent wholesale to workers all , those for in this busy the was establishments fingers the sole in material Berkshire of Outhbert which , and
chester of Kendal who , Hod in gskins 1520 were of Halifax the three , and most Martin famous Briar clothiers of Man in
-Eng inner land , s , constan and who tlengaged had each in a band aring of femal the fleecy e carders stock and for
labours exporting sp of a the great loom y part . ; But of that only , prep producing although here woollen and cloth there , and in irl
wroug " chambers ht all day large in and the production long" hundreds of yarn of , they women the could hii and , after beside g all s ,
the have hearth had but of a each very homestead limited effect where in silencing solitary spinners m still had to ply their wheels at every leisure , moment , to provide apparel
for themselves and their households . after Wh inspecting en king Henry his factory the Eig at hth _JSTewbury took leave he of expressed John Winch his combe royal ,
"conviction that no trade in all the land , was so much to be cherished and maintained as this c which' " quoth he" may
, ,, affectionate well be called fostering the life of of a the child poor was . '" thoug But ht as by in the those best-meaning days the
nurses to consist in cramping it with mummy bands , and
The Earlier Clothiers' Establishments. 1...
THE EARLIER CLOTHIERS' ESTABLISHMENTS . 1 _& 5
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/11/
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