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A34601 The Corporation of weavers at London and Canterbury do humbly offer to the consideration of the Honourable House of Commons that this kingdom will sustain great evils and damage, if a bill now depending in this House should pass into a law, which bill enjoyns the wear of cloath or leather, and consequently restrains the wear of silks and stuffs mixed with wooll, silk and hair, viz. 1689 (1689) Wing C6343; ESTC R40889 2,154 1

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THE CORPORATION of WEAVERS At London and Canterbury do Humbly Offer to the Consideration of The Honourable House of COMMONS That this Kingdom will sustain great Evils and Dammage if a Bill now depending in this House should pass into a Law which Bill enjoyns the Wear of Cloath or Leather and consequently Restrains the Wear of Silks and Stuffs mixed with Wooll Silk und Hair viz. THE restraint of wearing such Silks and Stuffs by the Nobility and Gentry seven Months in the Year and by the Commonalty at all times will necessarily impoverish and depopulate this Kingdom there being no Trade that imploy so many people as those relating to the Manufacturing of Silk and Hair for upon the most modest Computation they are judged to be several Hundreds of Thousands of Weavers Throwsters Windsters Dyers and other Dependants thereupon many of which have according to Law served Seven Years Apprentiship to their several Trades and have no other Freehold or Inheritance for themselves and Families to subsist on and who by such a Law wil in a manner be deprived of their Trades and thereby necessitated to seek their Living in other parts or become chargeable to the places of their abodes For that the Merchant cannot give Credit nor the Weaver Throwster c. supply their Journeymen and Windsters the year round without returns of Moneys for their Commodities And their Journeymen c. possess nothing but what they get by their daily Labour to supply their daily Wants Nor can their Journeymen c. expect to be imployed in the Manufacturing of Cloath for that as hereafter is evident Exportatien of Cloath to Turky will be abated and consequently the present Manufactures of Wooll want imployment That although this Bill provides that Stuffs made of Mohair Yarn being lined with Cloath or Stuffs made of Wooll may be worn in upper Garments by men only yet such Stuffs if Camlets are meant thereby do not consume the 8th part of Mohair Yarn imported nor will they imploy a 30th part of the Manufactures that Mohair Yarn do now imploy For that Hair Shaggs the Ground and Shoot whereof is Woollen Yarn and the several Commodities hereafter mentioned viz. Hair Prunella which are customarily worn by the Clergy in the Summer season together with Camlets Barratines Crispiana's Tamalta's Calamancces Mohair Farrendiens Morella's and divers other Stuffs are made of three parts of Mohair Yarn and but one part Silk and these are chiefly for the use of Women in the Winter season who are not allowed to wear the same And although this Bill provides that Womens Garments may be lined with Silk c. yet such Linings have Customarily been imported from the Indies and the English Manufactures of Silk and Hair by such Provision no wayes benefited That such a Law will destroy the intention of the Bill it self by lessening the Consumption of English Wooll and impoverishing the Manufactures thereof For that the greatest part of our coarse Cloths and Stuffs made of English Wooll are Transported beyond the Seas and chiefly to Turkey in return whereof the Merchants necessarily import Raw Silk and Mohair Yarn wholly unmanufactured which imploys so many Thousands in this Kingdom Now it the Consumption of Silk and Hair be abated as it must be by the restraint of the wear thereof the Exportation of Cloth which goes out fully manufactur'd must proportionably abate thereunto for that Turky doth not afford Commodities proper for England to be brought in returnes other than Raw Silk and Mohair Yarn So that Whereas the Turkey Company have so late Exported 25 or 30 thousand Cloths in one Year they will by this Restraint be greatly reduced And for that every of the Nobility Gentry and better sorts of Tradesmen and their Families will not wear our coarse Clothes made of English Wooll but fine Dutch Clothes and Clothes made of Spanish Wooll It being evident and the Clothiers themselves will acknowledge that Salisbury Devonshire and Worcester Clothes from 11 s. per yard and upwards have not one Lock of English Wooll contained in them except Clothes made of that small quantity of English Wooll which Lempster affords the quantity whereof is very inconsiderable Upon which it is manifest That the more Silks are worn in England if Manufactur'd here the greater is the Consumption of English Wooll for such persons as wears a Silk or Mohair Garment doth certainly expend more English Wooll that being return of English Woollen Cloth. And the Consumption of Wooll will also be lessened by the Restraint of the wear of Stuffs made of part Wooll and part Silk for that the several Stuffs hereafter mentioned viz Bombazines Anthorines Silk-Sayes Crape Silk Masquerade Strip'd Cheneys Virgins Beauty Drafts of all sorts Druggets of all sorts Silk shades Worsted Barratines Glassamines Katharina's Tameenes Estameenes and all other or most Norwich Stuffs with great Numbers of other sluifs too many to be here inserted having but one part of Silk in them and nine parts of Worsted which is our English Sheeps Wooll yet because of that little part of Silk must not be worn in Apparel That this Restraint will not only ruine the English Manufactures of Silk and Hair but also great Numbers of French Protestants that fled hither from the Persecurions in France who will be necessitated to depart into other parts for it is well known that the farr greater Numbers of such Protestant Strangers have been imployed and wholly subsist by Manufacturing of Silk and Mohair Yarn But now if it shall please the Parliament instead of Restraining the Wear of our own Manufactures to prohibit the Wearing of Silks and stuffs Manufactured the Forreign part and that be cause Manufactured silks heretofore Imported from France was the return or product of Cloth made of English Wooll but of late Years hath been the return of Money only whereby the Consumptlon of Wooll hath been abated about fix hundred thousand 1. per. Annum this would certainly inrich this Nation and cause a greater Consumption of Wooll For these Reasons and for that the said Restraints will in a manner prohibit the use of Silk Hair stuffs and be the present ruine of many Mercers and others whose Stocks consist in Silks and Hair stuffe It is humbly prayed That this Honourable House will be pleased to lay aside the aforesaid Bill LONDON Printed for John Wallis 1689.