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folding, the whole contained in a well-erecled 

 edifice, 81 feet long, by 28 feet broad, and 17 

 high. 



In the firft year, 1774, not having a bleach- 

 green, he only kept the looms going, to fell the 

 linen green ; 6 5 in that year worked 1 7 30 webs, 

 each 50 yards long and feven-eighths broad, on 

 an average 10 hundred linen. In 1775, the 

 number of looms was 80, and they worked 

 2 1 10 pieces of the fame linen. At prefent the 

 number is 90, and preparations are made for 

 there being 120 by this time twelve-month: and 

 Mr. Fitzmaurice has no doubt of having 300 in 

 two years time. In eftablifhing and carrying 

 on this manufactory, the increafe has been by 

 weavers from the north, for whom he builds 

 houfes as fall as he can, and has many more ap- 

 plying than he can fupply by building. They 

 come with nothing but their families, and Mr. 

 Fitzmaurice fixes them in houfes, finds them a 

 loom, and every thing neceffary for their work, 

 and employs them upon his own account; their 

 rent for their houfe and garden being propor- 

 tioned to their idlenefs. 



The full rent he fixes for a (tone and flate 

 cottage, that oofts him 50I. is 40s. if the wea- 

 ver is idle ; but in proportion to the number of 

 webs he weaves his rent is lowered • befides 

 w r hich encouragement, he gives premiums for 

 the befl weaving and fpinning throughout the 

 manufactory. 



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