The Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted Industries: From the Earliest Times Up to the Industrial Revolution |
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apprentice apprenticeship Arthur Young attempt Beverley Bradford broad cloth carried centres chapter Chas cloth area Cloth Hall cloth industry cloth market cloth-makers clothiers coloured combing Corporation County of York declared Defoe district dyers East Anglia eighteenth century England English erected export fabrics factory fibres foreign fuller gild Gomersal Halifax hands Hence House Huddersfield Hull Ibid Industrial Revolution inspectors journeyman justices Keighley kerseys labour Lancashire Leeds legislation Lincolnshire London loom machinery manufacture master ment Merchant Adventurers mill narrow cloths North northern offenders ordinances paid parish persons petition pieces Pontefract Quarter Sessions Rolls seal searchers seventeenth century shalloons spinners spinning statute subsidy supply tenter textile textile industry tion town trustees ulnage wages Wakefield wares weavers weaving West Riding whilst White Cloth Hall whole wool wool-combers wool-staplers woollen cloth woollen industry workpeople Worsted Committee worsted industry yards yarn
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Page 53 - ... city and suburbs thereof, and other places within the county of York, have been daily set on work in spinning, dying, carding, and weaving of the said coverlets, &c.
Page 399 - ... perilous. In winter, during which season the employment of the working manufacturer was intermitted, the distant markets never ceased to be frequented. On horse-back before day-break, and long after night-fall, these hardy sons of trade pursued their object with the spirit and intrepidity of a fox chase, and the boldest of their country neighbours had no reason to despise their horsemanship or their courage." There is the evidence, also, of Henry Homer, author of " An Enquiry into the Means of...
Page 359 - ... those tressels, so that the boards lie like long counters on either side, from one end of the street to the other. The clothiers come early in the morning with their cloth; and as few clothiers bring more than one piece, the market being so frequent, they go into the inns and publick-houses with it, and there set it down.
Page 56 - ... cure and benefice, which for the most part are unlearned and very ignorant persons, not able to do any part of their dutys ; by reason whereof the said city is not only replenished with blind guides and pastors, but also the people...
Page 254 - Philosophy, which do not add twopence per year to the riches of the nation, . . . whilst the notions of trade are turned into ridicule, or much out of fashion...
Page 351 - Though we met few people without doors, yet within we saw the houses full of lusty fellows, some at the dye-vat, some at the loom, others dressing the cloths ; the women and children carding, or spinning; all employed, from the youngest to the oldest; scarce anything above four years old, but its hands were sufficient for its own support.
Page 354 - O'erlooks the work: the carded wool, he says, Is smoothly lapp'd around those cylinders, Which, gently turning, yield it to yon cirque Of upright spindles, which with rapid whirl Spin out, in long extent, an even twine.
Page 300 - During all which time or term, the said apprentice his said master well and faithfully shall serve ; his secrets keep...