2 25 SHREWSBURY. 



The number of men, women, and children in the 

 houfe when I was there, amounted to about four 

 hundred. Their employmenL confifts principally in 

 preparing their own clothing, which they do from 

 the raw matei'ial to its finifhed ftate. The neceffaiy 

 machines and implements are arranged in different 

 apartments ; and perfons verfed in fcribbling, card- 

 ing, and fpinning wool, are employed to inflrucl the 

 paupers. Weavers were likewife engaged, and a 

 ihop was allotted for their accommodation. Work- 

 ing rooms are alfo fet apart for fhoemakers, taylors, 

 &c. where the paupers who have been brought up 

 in thefe occupations are employed, and where one 

 divifion of the boys are taught to woi'k. The largefl 

 apartments are allotted to the carding and fpinning 

 rooms. The girls are by rotation employed and in- 

 ftrucled, as much as poffible, in cooking, managing 

 the affairs of the Idtchen and laundry, and in wafh- 

 ing, fcouring, and fuch other work as may ^beft 

 qualify them for fervice. — The ufual hours of work- 

 ing are from fix o'clock in the morning to fix in 

 the evening, from the ifl of March to the middle of 

 06lober; and from feven in the morning to fuch 

 an hour at night as the dire6tors choofe to appoint 

 during the remainder of the year. They are al« 

 lowed half an hour at breakfaft, and an hour at 

 dinner. No work is done on Sundays ; Saturday 

 afternoons, from four o'clock j Good Friday; Chrifl- 

 mas day, and the two following days j Monday and 



Tuefday 



