Wool industry - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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A True state of the question, as it now stands, between the woollen and silk manufactures, and printed callicoes : and as the same is further clear'd up in the following queries.
Date: [1720]- E-books
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Observations on British wool, and the manufacturing of it in this Kingdom . With remarks on the wool, and woollen manufactories of France, Flanders and Holland, &c. Shewing the Nature of the British Wool in its full Perfection, and its peculiar Goodness, exceeding all other Combing Wool, and the Advantages we may have from it; the Loss and Ruin it will infallibly bring to this Nation by being Run into Foreign Parts, and how and why it is Destructive: With the Rise and Progress of the Woollen Manufactories Abroad, occasion'd by its being Run. To which is annex'd, A Playcart or Proclamation, for Preserving the Woollen Manufactures in Flanders, publish'd in the Year 1731. Also an Address to the Parliament of Great-Britain, shewing the Advantage it is to the Landed Interest to keep our Wool at Home; with an Addition of several Facts of Wool and Yarn being seized, which have come to my Knowledge since the first Publication. By a manufacturer of Northamptonshire.
Munn, JohnDate: [1739]- E-books
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The Farther case of the woollen and silk manufacturers
Date: [1720]- E-books
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A scheme to prevent the running of wool abroad, and to encourage the manufactures at home Re-Printed with several additions. Together with Notes upon Trade and Industry, Idleness, and Extravagance. Also a scheme to prevent the smuggling of brandy, tea, &c. into England. To Encourage the Fair Trader, and encrease His Majesty's Revenues. The second edition, with additions. Shewing, In part, what should, and what should not be done, for the Purposes aforesaid, and that the Riches of a Nation encrease in Proportion as the Produce thereof is (or decrease in Proportion as the same is not) properly improved, manufactured, or consumed. By John Newball.
Newball, John, fl. 1730-1748.Date: [1744]- E-books
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Speculum commercii or, the history of our golden fleece. Written by the author of the Beaux merchant.
Blanch, John, b. 1649 or 50.Date: 1716