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A32829	Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.	An essay on wool and wollen manufacture for the improvement of trade, to the benefit of landlords, feeders of sheep, clothiers, and merchands, in a letter to a member of Parliament.	1693.0		.xml	application/xml	5252	148	57	This sudden and unnatural Trade hath for divers times been experimented , to make the Price of Wool for a while rise ; for that low Price , at which Foreign-Merchants have set this false-made Cloth , hath caused many Buyers abroad , to take advantage of that cheap Opportunity of stocking themselves with English Drapery ; and such a Trade hath lasted for Three or Four years , whereby much Wool hath been here manufactured , and the Price of Wool accordingly raised ; but at length , when the Baseness of this Manufacture hath been discovered , and the Markets abroad clogg'd , as sudden a Fall of Wool must in all likelihood be expected to have ensued , and by this Opportunity the Value of foreign made Cloth hath been raised , our Cloth discredited , Merchants of Societies discourag'd , Clothiers had little to do , Growers to pay , and Landlords to receive . For , First , If the Price of our Cloth be low abroad , 't is impossible that Wool should continue to bear a good Price at home : If Cloth falls , the Material 't is made of must fall with it , and consequently the Labours of the Card-makers , Breakers , Combers , Carders , Spinners , Weavers , Fullers , Shearmen , Clothiers , Dyers , Cloth workers , Packers , &c. must be beat down , if these be discourag'd , we must more and more lose our Manufacture , for who will breed up their Children to a discourag'd Trade ?	cache/A32829.xml	txt/A32829.txt
