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earn gs, the women £s. and boys 3/. 6</. 

 a week. 



The fpinners in the facking branch earn 

 6 J-, a week, women j then it is wound on 

 bobbins by women and children, whofe 

 earnings are 4^. a day; then the ftarchers 

 take it, they earn 6 j. a week ; after which 

 it is wove by men, at 9 j. a week. The 

 fail-cloth employs about 300 weavers, and 

 the facking 150; and they reckon twenty 

 fpinners and two or three other hands to 

 every weaver. 



During the war the fail- cloth branch 

 was very brifk, grew a little faint upon the 

 peace, but is now and has been for fbme 

 time pretty well recovered, though not to 

 be fo good as in the war. The facking 

 manufacture was better alfo in the war; 

 but is always briik. 



The fpinners never ftand ilill for want of 

 work ; they always have it if they pleafe ; 

 but weavers fometimes are idle for want of 

 yarn, which, conlidering the number of 

 poor within reach, (the fpijiners of the 

 facking live chiefly in CheJI:ire) is melan- 

 choly to think of. 



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