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… price of yarn shall, by the increase of the quantity of flax and of the number of spindles, be reduced. This high … year and last. Hope that with the increase of home-raised flax, the coarser part whereof, as well as the tow, must be employed for coarse yarn, the price of coarse flax and tow will be brought as low in Scotland as beyond …
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… detailed, for the further encouragement of said fisheries, flax, and wool manufactures. [ North Britain Book XII. pp. …
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… his publishing his invention for breaking and dressing of flax and giving security to dress all the flax that shall be produced within the counties mentioned in …
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… to set up Spalden's machine for breaking and dressing flax. (7.) 10 l. to be allowed for one year to a proper …
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… subsidy, impost 16923), the duties on rough or undressed flax, taken off from 1731, Midsummer, according to the Act 4 … of the moneys arisen from the duties on rough or undressed flax imported into England for seven years ended Christmas, …
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… and of some foreigner skilled in raising and dressing flax, entertaining apprentices on Mr. Hope's farm for raising and dressing flax, and purchasing looms and a Dutch press for folding and …
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… proposed ways, detailed, for the encouragement of the flax, linen, and cambric manufactures. [ Ibid. pp. 2612.] May …
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… re-export (from March 1697 to Xmas 1715) of linens, silks, flax, Spanish wool, cochineal, potashes, paper, iron, …
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… yarn, raw: ditto. silks wrought, raw and thrown: ditto. Flax, rough: ditto. Spanish wool: ditto. Cochineal, potashes, …
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… now the season of the year for importing hemp [seed] and flax seed, which is expected as usual by the several counties … is now more wanting than in other years by reason of the flax seed having in great measure failed. Ibid., pp. 2234. …