2o 4 A HISTORY OF 



In November 1772, a resolution as to the necessity 

 for the establishment of a warehouse in Dublin for the 

 sale of woollen goods for home consumption was come 

 to, and the vice-presidents, with Messrs. Ford, Vallancey, 

 Andrews, and Lodge Morres were named directors. 

 The warehouse, placed by Parliament under the 

 management of the Society, was opened in Castle 

 street in 1773, and at the end of the year 1780, the 

 value of goods in it was stated to be ^10,674, \s. id., 

 and in 1782,^13,311, 17 s. 3^. To encourage woollen 

 and worsted manufacture in the west of Ireland, ^60 

 were voted to Arthur Greene, of Ennis, clothier, dyer, 

 and presser, as an aid towards erecting proper apparatus 

 for dyeing and finishing. A bounty of £60 was also 

 voted to David Clark, late of Manchester, for having 

 established in this kingdom the making of carding 

 machines and spinning-jennies for cotton. Lady 

 Arabella Denny laid before the Society specimens of 

 twenty-four different kinds of woollen and worsted 

 manufactures, such as were best adapted to the Portu- 

 guese market, with particulars which might lead to 

 the introduction of those branches of manufacture. 

 In 1784, on the consideration of the appropriation of 

 ,£400 voted for the woollen warehouse, and as to any 

 necessary alterations in the mode of conducting it, a 

 memorial was received from the manufacturers who sold 

 their goods through it, praying the Society to continue the 

 mode of sale as before. A pamphlet, entitled Remarks 

 on a Pamphlet printed in the year 1779, containing 

 Thoughts on the Inexpediency of continuing the Irish 

 Woollen Warehouse as a Retail Shop, 1 with some other 

 papers of a like nature, was presented. An amend- 



1 For the pamphlet as to Inexpediency, see Haliday Pamphlets, 

 1779, ccccxi. 10. It contains powerful arguments against the system, 

 and is well worth perusal. 



