Woolen and worsted manufacture - Early works to 1800

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Addressed to His Grace the Duke of Portland. A memorial concerning the woollen manufactory, and the exportation of wool, unmanufactured, into foreign countries. To which is added a plan to prevent so destructive a commerce. By Peter Peterson
Peterson, Peter, writer on trade.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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An Act to preserve and encourage the woollen and silk manufactures of this kingdom and for more effectual imploying the poor by prohibiting the use and wear of all printed, painted, stained, or dyed callicoes, in apparel, houshold-stuff, furniture, or otherwise, after the twenty fifth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and twenty two (except as therein is excepted.).
Great BritainDate: 1721]
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Observations on milling broad and narrow cloth, &c. shewing I. The many destructive errors that attend the common method of milling, and Reading or Tighting of Cloth, during its Milling. And, II. The many advantages that accrue, instead thereof, from the use of a new instrument, called a regulator. To which is annexed, A Certificate signed by several of the most eminent Clothiers in the Superfine Trade. By Richard Brooks, Clothier, Inventor of the said Regulator, and Patentee, at the Devizes, in the County of Wilts.
Brooks, Richard, fl. 1740-1743.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]
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Reasons for a continuation of the retail trade in the Irish woollen ware-house, humbly offered to the considerations of the right honourable and honourable the members of the Dublin Society
Date: 1780?]
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National advantages to be derived from adopting the following plans: viz. I. A land-tax in place of tythes. ... X. Supplying the city of Dublin with water at two-thirds of the present expence. By a citizen of Dublin
Bond, Thomas, Sir.Date: 1799