The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM AD. 1689 tinued to import drugs and spices, as their chief returns, till about 1670, when a considerable quantity of textile goods was brought over, and some artisans were sent out to in- troduce patterns suitable for sale at home. So great was their success, that a few years later it was alleged that “from the greatest Gallants to the meanest Cook Maids nothing was thought so fit to adorn their persons as the Fabricks of India, nor for the ornaments of Chambers like India Skreens, Cabinets, Beds and Hangings, nor for Closets, like China and Lacquered Ware.” It thus appeared that the field for the employment of English subjects was becoming restricted. through the importation of commodities manufactured abroad; it was argued that to divert employment from Englishmen to Hindus was distinctly prejudicial to the good of the realm? and that, though the East India trade might have been profitable as long as it was confined to the importation of Eastern products like spices, it became distinctly hurtful when it consisted largely of importing textile fabrics and other goods, which took the place in the home market of articles already made in England? There was a great outcry from the fan-makers, who seem to have been a numerous classé, but the chief complaint arose in connection with the clothing trades. The Company “finding the Advantage they had of having their Goods cheap wrought by the wretched Poverty of that numerous People, have used sinister Practices to betray the Arts used in their Native Country, such as sending over Artificers® and Patterns to instruct them in the way of making Goods, and Mercers to direct them in the Humour and Fancy of them, to make them fit our Markets”: this had affected not only the silk 1 Pollexfen, A Discourse of Trade, Coyn and Paper Credit (1697), p. 99. 2 This was another point argued in the attack made by the Turkish Company on the East India Company in 1681. The Allegations of the Turkey Company and Others against the East India Company Brit. Mus. 522. 1. 5 (8), p. 4]. 8 Compare A Memento to the East India Companies Brit. Mus. 1029. c. 21 (9), (1700), p. 19]. This consists of a reprint of a remonstrance presented by the East India Company to the House of Commons in 1628, with animadversions upon it, showing how much the character of their trade had altered since that time, and that it could no longer be defended upon the same grounds. ¢ The Fann Makers Grievance [Brit. Mus. 816. m. 12 (97)]. 5 This was denied, except as regards one or two dyers, by the East India Company in their answer to the Allegations of the Turkey Company [Brit. Mus. 592. 1. 5 (8), p. 121. 104

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