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Silk industry - Great Britain

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    A brief state of the case relating to the machine erected at Derby for making Italian organzine silk : which was discover'd and brought into England, with the utmost difficulty and hazard, and at the sole expence of Sir Thomas Lombe.

    | Date: [1732?]
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    Considerations on the attempt of the East-India Company to become manufacturers in Great-Britain

    | Date: 1796
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    The case of the Russia merchants

    | Date: [1750?]
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    An Act for making more effectual an Act made in the eighth year of the reign of the late Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for employing the manufacturers, by encouraging the consumption of raw silk and mohair yarn

    Great Britain | Date: 1718]

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