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An Essay on Wool and Woollen Manufacture
An Essay on Wool and Woollen Manufacture
Book · 19 pages
A 1693 pamphlet in the form of a letter to a Member of Parliament, arguing for regulation of the English woollen cloth trade. It blames falsely made cloth and private traders for the loss of export markets to the Dutch, and proposes quality standards, sealing of cloth, and fixed annual export quotas for each chartered merchant company. It estimates England's sheep and wool output and domestic cloth consumption, and lists the benefits for merchants, clothiers, growers and landlords. It is an economic tract and contains no weaving instruction or drafts.

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