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facts and from the statement that lie employed a 

 hundred looms ; and a great deal more evident from 

 his having been selected to head the petition of the 

 clothiers for the encouragement of trade with France. 

 He had a pretty taste in sarcasm, too, if his retort 





OLD CI.OTII HALL, NEAVISIKY. 



upon Wolsey, to whom it had been referred, and who 

 had delayed to answer it, is considered. " If my Lord 

 Chancellor's father," said he, "had been no hastier in 



