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pound ; 6 hank yarn will become 7. If flax 

 is given out to be fpun, they will get 3d. a 

 hank for 6 hank yarn for fpinning it, and 

 they do one a day. The linen made here is 

 from 8 hundred to 245 of coarfe linen 10 

 hundred, the common; and of fine, 13, 14, 

 and 15. The pieces are 25 yards long, and 



yard wide. 53 Hanks for a web of 1600, — 



63 for 1 800. 49 Hanks will make a piece 



(a web) of 1400, which fells at 2od. brown. 

 The weaver is paid 10s. for weaving the 14 

 hundred web, and he will weave it in 9 days. 

 For cambricks the yarn is not boiled, and 

 therefore fo much finer ; they will earn more 

 at it than at linen, but is not fo faleable. 



Much done by drapers advancing the yarn, 

 and paying for the weaving at fo much a yard. 

 For 8 hundred, 2id. a yard. — 10 ditto, 3id. — 

 13 ditto, 3#d. — 16 ditto, yd. — 18 ditto, io|d. 

 — 24 ditto, i£. 7*d. — The finer the linen the 

 more they earn, In fine linen, going from it 

 to the plough or fpade, &c. hurts their hands 

 fo much, that they do not recover it for a 

 week j but not common for them to do it. 



1 Stone, 3ilb. — 60 hanks— 15 weeks— 1 

 woman. 2 Stone 30. 3 Stone 45. £ Stone 



7f. 3* Stone 52. Weaving 63 hanks into 



a web of 1 800, he has 20s. for it, and does it 

 in 1 2 days j but all preparations, drefling, &c. 

 included, it will be three weeks, at which rate 

 he can work for a year. 



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