 | John James - 1857 - 728 pages
...drapers set all " their arts to work to evade the law of prohibition by em" ploying people to imitate the more ingenious Indians, and " to legitimate the grievance, by making it a manufacture."f Thus the advantages which the worsted weavers expected to reap from the above mentioned... | |
 | Ephraim Lipson - 1921 - 298 pages
...calicoes prohibited from abroad, but some of Britain's unnatural children, whom we call Drapers, set all their arts to work to evade the law of prohibition,...legitimate the grievance by making it a manufacture." The weavers raised a great clamour and attacked in the open streets those who wore cotton dresses,... | |
 | John James - 1968 - 722 pages
...drapers set all " their arts to work to evade the law of prohibition by em" ploying people to imitate the more ingenious Indians, and " to legitimate the grievance, by making it a manufacture."f Thus the advantages which the worsted weavers expected to reap from the above mentioned... | |
 | A. J. Youngson - 348 pages
...Indian chintz and printed calicoes prohibited from abroad, but some of Britain's unnatural children set all their arts to work, to evade the law of prohibition, to employ people to mimick the more ingenious Indian, and to legitimate the grievance by making it a manufacture.1 1 Quoted in Mantoux, op. cit.... | |
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As if this nation was never to want a set of men to undo her," complained the indignant weavers, " no sooner were the East India chints and printed calicoes prohibited from abroad, but some of Britain's unnatural children, whom we call Drapers, set all... 