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A. D. lyyi' 



Unluckily I have not materials at hand to complete the linen exports 

 of all Britain by adding thofe of Scotland. As a fpecimen I fhall here 

 give thofe of Glafgow, the principal port of foreign trade, for the year 

 1771, from Gib/oil's Hijlory of Gla/goiv, pp. 213-234. 



British linen 

 Irish hnen 

 Checks and stripes 

 Kenting (or Ghentilig) 

 Printed 



2,175,431 jards. 

 731,012 

 362,894 

 46,385 

 S0.2S0t sc(uare yards. 



Totid British and Irish linens - 3,396,0021 



Befides fome German and Ruflia linens. 



Of thefe 51,837 yards were exported to Ireland, while at the fame 

 time 1,100,291 yards were imported from that country j a proof that 

 manufadtures, which are fometimes too inconfiderately fuppofed hurt- 

 ful rivals, may be mutually beneficial. 



In order to make the view of the linen trade more complete, fub- 

 joined is a flate of the imports of foreign linens in England for ten 

 years back, with the amount of the duties paid on them. 



* The bounty of three halfpence was now ex- 

 tended to (heetingt and table-linens, to be comput- 

 ed by the fquare yard ; and a new bounty of one 

 halfpenny per yard was allowed on Britifh checks 

 and ftripes from "jd to l/5 a yard. 



t Mr. Paine the gOTernor of the bank of Eng- 



land, when examined in the houfe of commons on 

 the fubjeft of foreign linens, ftated the imports of 

 thefe years fomewhat higher than they are here 

 given : and he made the average quantity from ihe 

 year 1752 to 1756 inclufive to be 31,000,000 of 

 yards annually. 4 



