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THE EAELIEK CLOTHIERS ' ESTABLISHMENTS. ...
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which had thus almost ruined many a poor cloth-worker . Another Act of the reiof Philip and Mary was the very
gn imp check ortant the law tendency intended of trade to encourage to pass into " . smal the l mas hands ters of , " larg and e
time capitalists should , b be y ordainin used or g even that possessed not more by than any two one living looms in at a a limited to but it
townwhile rural dwellers were one ; beingfuture further , to provided be woven that no t broad in cities white or other woollen such cloth places was where in .
excep they The * latter had been enactment accustomed bears to the be appearance woven for of ten being years - entirel preceding y in . .
the the interest preamble of of the the great Act manufactories states quite alread an opposite y established intention , but ,
g therefore clothiers iving as supposed do the oppress reason this the for law weavers its would being ; in " introduction passed a some grievance , way the obviate of fact which several that . it rich im was
portant The following changes , for reign we find saw that the in 1567 . the manufacture of - and sliht woollen fabricscalled the New Drapery
serges g , , introduced as distinguished at Norwich from the and old in 1588 broad the -cloths taking and and kerseys plundering , was ;
of Antwerp by the duke tak of Parma drove here many influx of of the skilled
silkworkers weavers of which that gave place which a to great had e impetus refuge continued to the to , an be home far manufacture too costlto
of silka material y become , at all commonat least as a fabric from which garments , could scarelbe obtained t from
the could craftsmen be made of , forei while it countries . y excep It was in the course gn of this century too that another new
of bran that ch of article industry of clothing began to which flourish had throug the honour h the invention of being the the first stocking to which . The the exact power date th of at mach of in their the inery introduction earl was applied of is , viz not his .,
knownbut we are aware y part reign Henry , the Eighth wore hose formed of sewn cloth , is whereas found in in the the twenty household -fifth book year of of his a gentlem reign ( 1533 an of ) Norfolk an entry
of of knit the hose sum for of him eight and shillings one shilling having for been two pairs paid of for ditto a pair for ,
known his . children at this . They time could , since , however Stow in , scarcel his Chronicle y have become much that says
wors Earl te of d Pembroke knit stockings , was ' the were , first not nobleman . worn till . who 1564 appeared , when , the in first made in
Eng Burdet them lan , while d who by having one he . furth W accidental . . Rider er states , an ly that seen apprentice they in the were of shop Master ' of an Thomas Italian
merchan , t a pair -which had been sent from Mantua , borrowed
The Eaeliek Clothiers ' Establishments. ...
THE EAELIEK CLOTHIERS ' ESTABLISHMENTS . 157
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/13/
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