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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522 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM the circumstances, the Irish linen trade did not prosper rapidly, though the Irish Parliament did their best to encourage it?, and it had attained considerable proportions when the Dublin Linen Hall was founded in 1728% It did not spread over the whole island? but it seems to have made steady progress through the eighteenth century®, The trade was protected against foreign linens® and enjoyed certain bounties’, but it did not have a fair share of the encouragement’ that was given to British linens® There can be no doubt that certain English statesmen viewed this trade with some jealousy They feared that if we did not take our returns from the Low Countries in linen, they would close their ports against English woollen cloth; and thus, while the Irish clothing trade was extinguished, the Irish linen trade was also offered as a sacrifice to the staple industry of this country. Tn ld 230. The story of the hardware trade during this period ware trade . . . 3 underwent has somewhat special interest, since it does not present a ttl : eh in close parallel to that of the other trades. There is no reason organisa to believe that the organisation of the industry underwent much change. Some departments seem to have been capitalist in character from mediaeval times®; though such branches of business as nail-making continued to be in the withhold the head. Ireland having received no compensation, directly or in. livectly, for any restraints on their trade, ought not, in justice or common 10nesty, to be made subject to such restraints. I do not mean to impeach the right of the parliament of Great Britain to make laws for the trade of Ireland. { only speak of what laws it is right for parliament to make.” \ Irish Commons Journals, mm. i. 287; 10 and 11 W, III. ¢. 10, § 2. ? Lecky, History of England in the Eighteenth Century, m. 321. 8 Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland (Dublin, 1760), 68. Brit. Mus. 116. g. 12. t+ Newenham, View of the Natural, Political and Commercial Circumstances of Ireland, App. No. 7, p. 10. There was a temporary decline for some years after L771, Reports from Committees of the House of Commons, m. 107. 5 7 Geo. III. e. 58. 6 10 Geo. III. c. 38. / Compare the Report of 1744, Reports from the Committees of the House of Tommons, I. 69. 8 10 Geo. ITT. c. 40. See also the speech of the Marquis of Rockingham, Parl. Hist. xx. 640. ® Compare the survey of the possessions of Gilbert d'Umfraville (1245). I. Lowthian Bell in Brit. Assoc. Report, 1863, 787. Dr G. T. Lapsley has printed [Eng. Hist. Review, xv. (1899), p. 509] an interesting account of the Bishop of Durham's forge at Bedburn in Weardale in 1408. The hands, of various grades of skill, were all wage-earners, and in years when the works were let at ferm. they were probably rented by a capitalist undertaker. A.D. 1689 —1776.

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