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engage in similar undertakings, I shall take the liberty 

 to enlarge a little upon this subject. 



From the magazine of sorted wool, the master-clothier 

 receives this sorted wool again, in order to its being 

 wolfed, greased, carded, and spun under his inspection, 

 and then delivered into the store-room of woollen yarn. 

 As woollen yarn he receives it again, and delivers it to 

 the cloth-weaver. The cloth-weaver returns it in cloth 

 to the steward. The steward delivers it to the fuller, 

 the fuller to the cloth-shearer, the cloth-shearer to the 

 cloth-presser, and the cloth-presser to the steward ; and 

 by this last it is delivered into the Military Magazine, if 

 destined for the army ; if not, it is placed in the shop 

 for sale. The master-clothier is answerable for all the 

 sorted wool he receives, till he delivers it to the clerk 

 of the wool-spinners ; and all his accounts are settled 

 with the steward once a week. The clerk of the spin- 

 ners is answerable for the carded and combed wool he 

 receives from the master-clothier, till it is delivered in 

 yarn in the store-room ; and his accounts are likewise 

 settled with the master-clothier, and with the clerk of 

 the store-room (who is called the clerk of the control) 

 once a week. The spinners' wages are paid by the clerk 

 of the control, upon the spin-ticket, signed by the clerk 

 of the spinners ; in which ticket, the quantity and qual- 

 ity of the yarn spun being specified, together with the 

 name of the spinner, the weekly delivery of yarn by 

 the clerk of the spinners into the store-room must an- 

 swer to the spin-tickets received and paid by the clerk 

 of the control. More effectaully to prevent frauds, each 

 delivery of yarn to the clerk of the spinners is bound 

 up in a separate bundle, to which is attached an abstract 

 of the spin-ticket, in which abstract is specified the 



