REMEMBRANCES FOR A FACTOR ad. 



1582. 

 may go and worke at all times, and dresse clothes cheaply. 

 Then we have also for scowring our clothes earths and 

 claies, as Walkers clay, and the clay of Oborne little 

 inferior to Sope in scowring and in thicking. Then also 

 have we some reasonable store of Alum and Copporas 

 here made for dying, and are like to have increase of the 

 same. Then we have many good waters apt for dying, 

 and people to spin and to doe the rest of all the labours 

 we want not. So as there wanteth, if colours might be Supply of the 

 brought in and made naturall, but onely Oile : the want ^^'^^^ ofoile. 

 whereof if any man could devise to supply at the full 

 with any thing that might become naturall in this realme, 

 he whatsoever he were that could bring it about, might 

 deserve immortall fame in this our Common wealth, and 

 such a devise was offered to the Parliament and refused, 

 because they denied to endow him with a certaine liberty, 

 some others having obtained the same before, that prac- 

 tised to worke that effect by Radish seed, which onely 

 made a triall of small quantity, and that went no further, 

 to make that Oile in plenty : and now he that offered 

 this devise was a marchant, and is dead, and withall the 

 devise is dead with him. 



It is written by one that wrote of Afrike, that in Egypt Leo Africanii$ 

 in a city called Muhaisira there be many milles imployed 

 in making of Oile of the seed of an herbe called Sesamum. 

 Pena and Lobell, Physicians, write in our time, that this 

 herbe is a codded herbe full of oily seed, and that there is 

 plenty of this seede brought out of Egypt to divers Cities 

 in Italy. If this herbe will prosper in this realme, our 

 marchants may easily bring of it, &c. 



9 Having heerein thus troubled you by raising to 

 your minde the consideration of certaine things, it shall 

 not be impertinent to tell you that it shall not be amisse 

 that you note all the order of the degrees of labour used 

 in Turky, in the arte of Clothing, and to see if any way 

 they excell in that profession our people of these parts, 

 and to bring notice of the same into this realme. 



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