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A85116	The merchant's ware-house laid open: or, the plain dealing linnen-draper Shewing how to buy all sorts of linnen and Indian goods: wherein is perfect and plain instructions, for all sorts of persons, that they may not be deceived in any sort of linnen they want. Useful for linnen drapers, and their country chapmen, for semstresses, and in general for all persons whatsoever. Whereunto is added, the art of cutting out shifts, so that you may save a quarter of an ell, in cutting out one shift, and [ ]et cut it as long and large, as others [ ]ail out of a quarter more. A work [n]ever before attempted. Dedicated to her royal highness the Princess Ann of Denmark. By J. F.	J. F.	1696 (1696)	Wing F42; ESTC R230263	29,959	50

The Merchant 's Ware-house laid open OR The Plain Dealing LINNEN-DRAPER SHEWING How to Buy all sorts of Linnen and Indian Goods Wherein is perfect and plain Instructions for all sorts of Persons that they may not be deceived in any sort of Linnen they want Useful for Linnen Drapers and their Country Chapmen for Semstresses and in general for all persons whatsoever Whereunto is added The Art of Cutting out Shifts so that you may save a quarter of an Ell in Cutting out one Shift and ●…et Cut it as long and large as others hall out of a quarter more A Work never before Attempted DEDICATED To Her Royal Highness the Princess Ann of Denmark By J. F. LONDON ●●●●ted for John Sprint at the Bell and Geo. Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little Britain 1696. TO HER Royal Highness THE ●…rincess Ann of Denmark Humbly Dedicated MAY it please your Highness that the Loud Acclamations and Applause of your unlimited ●●…dness and boundless Charity to all those that ●…y themselves to your Bounty have never yet 〈◊〉 known to return empty handed which hath ●●…sioned this present boldness in me humbly to ●●●ent this small Epistle to your Royal Highness and 〈◊〉 made me presume with all humility to crave ●●…rage to this small Epistle Neither had I taken 〈◊〉 Presumption on me had I not been very well ●●…ed of two things the first is That amongst ●…hem any Books that have been Writ on most ●●…cts there hath not yet in any Age been any ●●●rth on this the next is That I am well assu●●● it will prove as general an assistance and good Worldly Affairs as any yet written both to 〈◊〉 and Poor by reason the Rich and Wealthy do 〈◊〉 buy great quantities of Linnen and so conse●…tly when they are deceived with bad Linnen 〈◊〉 be deceived of great Sums and the Poor having but little Moneys to lay out and that little 〈◊〉 haps hath been saved out of their Families B●… to procure a little clean Linnen to put on their 〈◊〉 and if they are deceived of that can by no 〈◊〉 get more to supply themselves withal but if 〈◊〉 take the advice of this little Book they will n●… 〈◊〉 of their expectation in having that which is 〈◊〉 let it be of any sort of Linnen or Indian 〈◊〉 whatsoever they shall have occasion for An●… these reasons I shall presume to place it among●●… of your Acts of Charity it being hoped to 〈◊〉 Act of Charity to those Poor People that seldo●… Linnen and being unskilful in Linnen are 〈◊〉 fore often deceived to their great sorrow Th●…●●…ing the first Book I ever wrote in my Life and 〈◊〉 fore humbly crave your Royal Patronage and ●●●ritable Construction on what your Wis●●● Knowing Judgment shall think amiss is the H●●… Request of Your Royal Highnesses most Humbl●… Obedient Servant AN EPISTLE TO THE ●…ourteous READER 〈◊〉 Five reasons I have been prevailed with to Write this little Book the First Reason is That those that ●●●ly dealt withal having found by Experience that 〈◊〉 Linnen on my Judgment were never Cheated ●●…elved and therefore have been very Importunate ●…e I left off to have me put forth some Directions ●●…ey may have understanding to buy good and not be 〈◊〉 The Second is The great difficulty it is for ●●●ple to know good Linnen from bad by reason many 〈◊〉 Linnen are very good to appearance and yet wear ●●…er and other sorts again appear very thin and ill 〈◊〉 the best of Cloth The Third is To prevent 〈◊〉 from buying damaged Cloth which most People buy ●…ing well to the Eye but when it comes into the Wa●●…ls into pieces and are in as much want the week af●●…●…ashed as if they had not bought any The Fourth ●●…event all People from buying one thing for another ●…asking for one sort they are shewn another which ●●…lse sort and wears very ill and that is for want ●●…ing the sorts of Cloth which several sorts I shall 〈◊〉 you with such Instructions how to know them that ●●●nest Capacity shall know all or most sorts of Cloth ●…hey shall have occasion to use or enquire for The Fifth and Last Reason which hath persuaded me i●… you know that few or none of those Cloths that are 〈◊〉 about and sold by the Pedlars are the true and ri●●● Cloth for wear but are a sort of fine Cloth to the 〈◊〉 but wears not above half the time of true Cloths 〈◊〉 few or no people can discern till they have worn●●… and by that time they have forgotten who sold it t●●… it may be when they have sold it you will not ap●… you in some time but send their Partners by re●●● know they have sold you a bad Cloth for a good I sha●●… fore make it my endeavour in this little Book to 〈◊〉 you such Instructions for every sort of Cloth o●… Goods that you may not be deceived by the mo●●… Dealer if you shall please to take the Advice of t●●… Book laying out the Price of one Book shall be 〈◊〉 buying of six Ells of Linnen and in order to yo●… understanding thereof I shall proceed Alphabetica●… if it answers my design to your content I shall i●… time enlarge on the same subject and shall esteem●… happy in being the instrument of your good Yours THE Plain-Dealing LINNEN-DRAPER A. BEcause I design to go on Alphabetically in this Book and the Cloth that deserves the preheminency in this both for general and common use and strength there is no 〈◊〉 that is at present in use that exceeds Alco●●…-holland it being made of the best Flax in the 〈◊〉 and the Thrid being Spun by the most care●…d curious hands and it is Wove by the best of ●●…rs and therefore if you are resolved not to 〈◊〉 good Holland for Shirts and Shifts you must ●…is sort of Holland now to let you know how ●●…or chuse the right you must ask for Alcomore●…d that is made by one Stanlack in Holland who ●…akes the true Cloth the pieces contain about ●●●ty nine or thirty four Ells at the most it hath 〈◊〉 in the Selvidges not commonly sewed on ●…yed into holes loose in the Cloth The present 〈◊〉 Prizes are from two Shillings and four Pence ●…ree Shillings which is generally the highest 〈◊〉 of the sort it is about one yard and half a ●●…ter broad There is also another sort of Alco●●…-holland of the same man's make which is above three quarters of a yard wide and hath 〈◊〉 sewed on to both Selvidges the right of both 〈◊〉 marked with this mark on the end at the 〈◊〉 of the breadth So much for Alcomore B. I shall begin with Bore-laps because 〈◊〉 Shifts or Shirts is counted and known to b●… 〈◊〉 strong Cloth though not so certainly stron●… former yet if they are thick and even thre●… wear well but if thin and uneven they wear 〈◊〉 there is three sorts one Ell wide the oth●●… wide and another three quarters wide th●… made up

Yard wide a●●…ing as the bigness of your body requires and 〈◊〉 it is split through the middle instead of taki●… half bredth and just the same length of th●… half bredth for the Body ●…nt of Ell ⅛ off of or 〈◊〉 half bredths and just the same length off of th●… half bredth which take for the body of your●… then take the remainder of one of the half h●… and double it then lay it a cross and cut it f●… Goars then take the other remainder of the 〈◊〉 and double it and cut it in the middle which 〈◊〉 just a pair of Sleeves then you want only f●… Gussets which will come out of the hollow●… the Neck of your Shift which Rule you may 〈◊〉 in cutting out two four or six Shifts for wh●… cut out two take a body of one of the half b●… and a body off of the other and when you c●… take two Bodies off of one of the half bredth●… two Bodies off of the other and when you 〈◊〉 take three off of one of the half bredths and 〈◊〉 of the other and by that means you may cut 〈◊〉 what length in reason you please whereas if 〈◊〉 take your Bodies all of one piece you can make 〈◊〉 but two Ells long and by this means you save ●…arter of an Ell in the Cutting out of each Shift ●…ld give you other Instructions for Cutting out ●…ll Cloth that you might Cut a Shift as large ●…f a Cloth half Ell as others should do out of a 〈◊〉 three quarters wide but I shall be forced to 〈◊〉 this by reason it would make me out-run the 〈◊〉 of my Book and for that I shall treat of it in ●●…t Edition T. 〈◊〉 being the next Letter there being but few Li●…●…f this that are of any great use here where●…cklenburs is one it being a coarse Linnen ●…enerally very uneven which comes from Ham●… it is but little different from Ozenbricks in ●…s and none but those that are of the Trade ●…ll the difference but the right Ticklingburs ●…ost as strong again as the Ozenbricks you ●…ow the right Ticklingburs by this the right is 〈◊〉 than the other and is not so fine but thicker 〈◊〉 thread is not so even as the Ozenbrick yet this 〈◊〉 is extreamly useful both in Town and Coun●… there is not many Cloths sold in England that ●…●…great Consumption as this and at the dearest 〈◊〉 above Ten Pence or at most Eleven Pence the 〈◊〉 There are other Cloths of this Letter but of 〈◊〉 no use here and therefore I shall refer you 〈◊〉 to my next Book U. There being few or none except French Clot●… drr this Letter as Vehemounty and Vitery C●… I shall refer you for their Instructions to m●… Book And for the Letters following they havi●… thing falls under their Alphabet worth ment●… and therefore shall conclude with my wishes 〈◊〉 may work my desired effects which I am sure●… not fail to serve you in if you punctually obse●… Directions and if it is serviceable I shall m●… addition of some material things which 〈◊〉 omitted for Brevities sake FINIS A Catalogue of Books THE True Art of Angling Or The Best and Spee●… diest way of Taking all sorts of Fresh-Water Fish with ●…orm Fly Paste and other Baits in their proper ●…s how to know the Haunts of Fish and Angle for 〈◊〉 in all Waters and Weathers at the Top Middle and 〈◊〉 Baiting of the Ground Night Baits Oyls and ●…nts Baits Natural and Artificial The several ways ●…gling To make Oil of Asper and many rare Secrets 〈◊〉 before made publick containing the whole Body of ●…g and Mystery of a Compleat Angler By J. S. 〈◊〉 A Brother of the Angle Printed for Geo. ●…ers at the Golden Ring and John Sprint at the 〈◊〉 in Little Britain Price 6 d. 〈◊〉 The way to save Wealth Shewing 1. How a Man ●…ive Well and Plentifully for Two Pence a Day 2. Di●…s to make Shoe-leather and other Leather last much 〈◊〉 than usual 3. To Beautifie Shoes and keep them ●…et and preserve them 4. To make Coals spend much 〈◊〉 than usual 5. To save Soap in Washing of Linnen ●…s 6. Directions to Dress Hats 7. To Cure all sorts ●…nds whatever by a Poultice only 8. To make seve●…ts of Powder for the Hair 9. Directions for the right ●…ing and preserving from all Diseases all sorts of 〈◊〉 10. Directions to make several sorts of Ink Pow●… and other Ink. 11. To Brew good Liquors without Malt. 〈◊〉 T●…make Coffee of Horse Beans 13. To make Sealing●…f all sorts 14. To know whether Gold or Silver Coin ●…d 15. To Cure Consumptions a new way With di●… other Extraordinary Experiments Rarities and Cu●… laventions Printed for G. Conyers at the Golden Ring in Little Britain over-against the Sugar loaf 〈◊〉 Price stitcht 4 d. * The Experienc'd Fowler or The Gentleman 〈◊〉 and Country-man's pleasant and profitable Re●… Containing 1. The true Art of Taking Water a●… Fo●…l with divers kinds of Nets Lime twigs Lime●… and how to make the best Bird-Lime 2. Direct●… Bat-Fowling Lowbelling Tramelling and driving 〈◊〉 how to find their Haunts and tuks them with S●… Snares c. 3. An exact Method for using the 〈◊〉 Piece at a true Level to Shoot at Water Groun●… or Flying 4. How to make Shot proportion the 〈◊〉 and know good Powder with the proper use 〈◊〉 Horse Bush Hedge and how to manage them 〈◊〉 Singing-Birds their Diseases and Cure 6. 〈◊〉 distinguish all sorts of Poulterers Ware whether 〈◊〉 Young Fresh or Stale full of Eggs or not Also 〈◊〉 Order and speedily Fat Tame and Wild Fowl 〈◊〉 which is added Directions for destroying all ma●… Vermin By J. S. Gent. Printed for Jo. 〈◊〉 at the Blue Bell and G. Conyers at the Rin●… Little Britain Price Six Pence