REMEMBRANCES FOR A FxVCTOR a.d. 



1582. 



shall die the same in truer, surer, and more excellent 

 and more delectable colours, then shall they sell and 

 make ample vent of their Clothes, when the English 

 cloth of better wooll shall rest unsold, to the spoyle of 

 the Merchant, of the Clothier, and of the breeder of 

 the wooll, and to the turning to bag and wallet of the 

 infinite number of the poore people imploied in cloth- 

 ing in severall degrees of labour here in England. 



Which things wayed, I am to tell you what things I 

 wish you in this Realme, and after in Turkie, to indevour 

 from time to time, as your laisure may permit the same. 



Before you goe out of the Realme, that [H. i. 162.] 



you learne: 



I 'TpO know wooll, all kind of clothes made in this 



A realme, and all other employments of wooll, 

 home or forren, be ye same in Felt clokes, felt hats, in 

 the red knit cap for Barbaric, called Bonettos rugios 

 colorados, or whatsoever, &c. 



All the deceits in Clothm.aking ; as the sorting together 

 of Wools of severall natures, some of nature to shrinke, 

 some to hold out, which causeth cloth to cockle and lie 

 uneven. 



The evill sorting of threed of good or bad wooll, some 

 tootoo hard spun, some tootoo soft spun delivered to be 

 woven. 



The faults in Weaving. 



The faults in Walking, Rowing, and Burling, and in 

 Racking the Clothes above measure upon the Teintors : 

 all which faults may be learned of honest men, which 

 faults are to be knowen to the merchant, to be shunned 

 and not to be used. 



2 Then to learne of the Diers to discerne all kind of 

 colours ; as which be good and sure, and which will not 

 hold : which be faire, which not ; which colours by the 

 dearth of the substances bee deare, and which by reason 

 of the cheapenesse of the Materials with which they be 

 died, be cheape colours. 



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