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THE EABLIER CLOTHIERS' ESTABLISHMENTS. 1...
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the attemp Queen t to ' s stifle strong the mind infant was Hercules warped in by its the cradle prejudice ; and even that havthe effect of
deprivin Lee ' s undertaking g thousands , if of successful the industrious , would poor to her of e and employment ;
was some and therefore as remun it is eration recorded when or he " support impeded showed , so his rather far work fro than m receiving assisted , requested either . " Thus , he
discouraged denied , him , here he soug but , ht on and his death found som in e France of the the workmen patronag who e ;
bring had accompanied ing their looms him with thith them er ; returned and their to countrymen their native havin land g ,
the apparentl manufacture y hy this soon time took formed root a better and flourished estimate of in its Eng value land , affording employment to an ever-increasing number of work- ,
peop That le of the both art sexes of ordinary . weavinhad been recently brought
to much greater perfection abroad g seems manifest from the account iven of the introduction of starch during this reign
for the stiffening g of ruffs , wherein it is remarked concerning the lawn of which these new-fashioned adornments were made ,
that it was . " a stuff strange and wonderful ; " and it is added word that when that first shortl used th thereupon would wear rose ruffs a general of a scoff ider ' s or web bye . " - sp
This , lawn was sold y by ey the Dutch merchants chiefly by ells and And times half ells Strutt there , very _, was in few mentioning not shop so much keeper this l s awn venturing circumstance and cambric to buy , observes to a be whole had that p in iece all at .
in the one merchants linendrap ' houses er's shop in London in his as own mig day ht easil . This y be remark purchased was
contain made in as 1760 compared ; what with does any not known " one linendraper even at that ' s date shop ? " now
cerning We are , both not the left number , indeed , of without those establishments some very accurate which data were con in
existence at the close of the sixteenth century , and the amount to of commodities Parliament in which the th year ey dispensed 1592 , against , th for in the caused a influx complaint of forei made gn of
business retail traders , on native the traders ground it that was instanced ey that a in decay London the lish among retailers of linen , cloth had been " to the number
of one Eng hundred and sixty , or thereabouts ,, but now they were but sixty-sevenand the strangers were increased double in
retailer that trade of ; linen and , whereas cloth in within London seven tittered years yearl past in one lawns Eng and lish
cambricsto the value of fourteen hundred pounds y , , now the best of , them uttered not in that sort of ware yearly two
uttered hundred at pounds that day , thoug than h was much wont more to be of . " those As the wares latter were fact
The Eablier Clothiers' Establishments. 1...
THE EABLIER CLOTHIERS' ESTABLISHMENTS . 159
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/15/
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