WATER-WORKES. 



derers, Wheeleer, Card-maker for Spinners, 

 Hatter, Point-maker, Sheapheards, Hindes, 

 Dairy-people, Swinheards ; two Vittelers, 

 and a noyse of Musitions with the Greene- 

 Dragon and Tat hot. 



If I mistake in marshalling my Mecha- 

 nicals^ your Lordshipp must understand I 

 am no Herold : they be a disordered 

 Company ; the offence not great to place 

 one knave before an other. All which be 

 appointed Attendants to maintaine and 

 furnish (a) twenty broadLoomesfor the finest 

 cloth ; tenne narrow Loomes for courser 

 Wooll^ Flax, Hemp, and Hurds. Tenne 

 Fustian Loomes, with such Silk-loomes as 

 necessity shall require : A Walker, Dier, 

 Cottoner, Sher-men, Spinners, Carders, Sor- 

 ters of woo//, pickers, and Quill-winders ; 

 which number will rise to some (b) 

 two thousand and upward. For all 

 which (except Spinners and Carders] I 

 find convenient house -roome. They 

 shall never loose an houres time to pro- 

 vide for such meanes as the backe or belly 

 requires : bread, beefe, mutton, butter and 

 cheese of mine owne provision, shall 

 attend their appointed houres, without 

 their trouble or losse of labor to any 

 35 Market 



(a) Twenty 

 broad loomes 

 imploide for 

 fine cloth. 



(b} Two thou- 

 sand im- 

 ploide in the 

 under-busi- 

 nesse of the 

 Common- 

 wealth. 



