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In order to fhew how far this fyftem of em- 

 ployment is of importance to the neighbour- 

 hood, I may obferve that the 80 looms, be (ides 

 the 80 weavers, employed 80 perfons more, 

 which are ufually women ; quilling, warping, 

 and winding; the quilling by children and half 

 as many children for quilling in .all 80 men, 80 

 women, and 40 children. 



The 2 1 1 o pieces worked lafl year confumed 

 1 32,930 hanks of yarn, at 63 to each, allowing 

 for accident and wafte, which is fpun here, and 

 as a woman fpins a hank a day (it is 3 hank 

 yarn) it employs at 300 days to the year, 443 

 women. 



I fhould be particular in remarking, that all 

 the houfes he built for the weavers, have no 

 more than half a rood of potatoe- garden to 

 them, Mr. Fitzmaurice finding them a cow's 

 grafs, for which they pay 30s. He does this, be- 

 caufe he would not wifh to have them farmers, 

 which he thinks does not at all agree with their 

 bufinefs of weaving. HehasplaUnedmuch great- 

 er works ; has procured a patent for a market, 

 which he defig;ns to ettablifli; to build a large 

 handfbme market- houfe, at an expenfe of ioock 

 to pull down all the old cabbins in the town, and 

 rebuild them in regular ftreets, of good houfes, 

 for weavers and mechanics. To convert a large 

 houfe, at prefent ufed in the manufactory, into 

 a handfome inn ; a large houfe for a mailer 

 weaver, and laftly, a manfion-houfe for him- 

 felf in the itiic of a caftle, and fuitable to the 



ancient 



