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Their fourth manufacfture is the tannery, 

 which employs near lOO hands, who earn 

 from js. to 7 J. td. a week. They tan 

 many hides from Ireland. 



They have likewife a fmall manufatflory 

 of cards, for carding cloth. Another alfb 

 of filk : They receive the wafte filk from 

 London, boil ft in foap, which they call 

 fcowering, then it is combed by women 

 (there are about 30 or 40 of them) and fpun, 

 which article employs about 100 hands; 

 after this it is doubled and drelTed, and fent 

 back again to London. This branch is 

 wpon the increafe. 



PROVISIONS, &c. 



Bread— oatmeal baked in thin hard cakes, 



called clap-bread, cofts id. per lb. 

 Chcefe, 31^. 

 Butter, 6k d. 16 oz. 

 Mutton, zd. to 2 k d. 

 Beef, 21 d. to 3 ^. 

 Veal, 21 d. 

 Pork, 41 d. 

 Bacon, 6 k d. 

 Milk, id. a pint. 

 Potatoes, 10 d, four gallons. 



Poor's 



