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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504 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM legislation on this topic; but much attention was given both to the supply of material and the terms of employment. The measures which were passed on these points seem to show that, as we might have expected, the trade was becoming increasingly capitalist in character. and to From time immemorial pains had to be taken by the Gove government to see that English weavers had a sufficient Facturers a SUPply of the raw material of their manufacture. The assize Bfeence of wool, under Edward IIL, had been intended to check the purchasing export of this product at low rates, and thus to give a prefer- tocol. ence to purchasers at home. In the time of Edward IV, limits were laid down as to the time of year when the Staplers might purchase wool for export ; from March 18th kill August 24th the home producer had no reason to fear their competition®. In the latter part of Elizabeth’s reign an agitation sprang up in favour of an absolute prohibition of the export of wool?, and James I. issued proclamations against it*. After the Parliament took up the same line, both at the Restora- Tsar tion* and the Revolution®. The measures which were then vaspro- passed were intended, not merely to give English weavers a preference’, but to starve out foreign competition alto- gether, by preventing industrial rivals from procuring a supply of English wool”. This system of prohibition was A.D. 1689 1776. 14 Ed. IV. ¢. 4. Lohmann, Die Staatlicke Regelung der englischen Woll- industrie, p. 66. This seems to have been specially aimed at a system of contracting beforehand for the purchase of wool. 3 8. P. D. El. ccxuiv. No. 104, 1593. 8 96 Sept. and 9 Nov. 1614; this was during the disturbance caused by Cockayne’s patent, but similar steps were taken in later years (p. 298 n. 9, above), and by Charles I. in 1632. t 13 and 14 C. IL c. 18. §1W. and M. i. c. 82. & Attention was also given to the supply of other articles used in dyeing {8 G. Ie. 15, §§ 10, 11, also 27 G. IL. c. 18) and in cloth working, such as fuller's sarth. See the commission of 1622 (Rymer, Federa, XVII. 412), also 12 C II. 5. 32 and 14 C. IL ec. 18. Direct encouragement was given to the growth of certain products, such as madder (A. Young, Farmer's Letters, 227, and Pennant, Journey, 1. 96), which were useful in connection with the textile trades. Tassels or teasels, which were used in the wool manufacture, were grown in considerable quantities in Yorkshire, where cloth dressing was carried on (Arthur Young, Northern Tour, 1. 191). The want of tassels in Scotland is spoken of by Lindsay (The Interest of Scotland, p. 109) as one reason why the woollen trade was so backward there. 7 This was believed to be so superior in quality to foreign wools as to be essential. at all events, for certain branches of the manufacture. Defoe, Plan of

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