APPENDIX, No. IV. 35 



neceflary for its fupport : There is reafon at leaft to believe, 

 that, during the troublefome times taken notice of by Sir 

 Mathevv Hale, many of our manufadlurers took refuge in 

 the Low Countries, and improved the woollen manufacture 

 of that country. Be that, however, as it may, it is more 

 our bufinefs in this place to take notice, that Critifli cloth 

 was in thofe days made of Britifh wool alone, and that this 

 fold at fuch a high price as to give encouragement to the im- 

 portation of the cheaper wool of Spain into Britain, which 

 was of fuch an inferior quality as made it neceflary to pro- 

 hibit the ufe of it, left it fhould have debafed our manu- 

 fadlures. Thus, 



« Anno 1 172, King Henry II. exprefsly ordained by fta- 

 tute, that Spanifli wool fhould not be mixed with Englifh 

 wool in the making of cloth.*" 



And that the cloths fo made of Englifh wool were broad 

 cloths, and that thefe cloths were of a fine quality for fo- 

 reign markets *, aud that, at this period, the Englifh manu- 

 fafturers pofTefTcd the knowledge of feveral particulars in 

 that art that were afterwards loft, and carried on fuch an ex- 

 port of various kinds of cloth, as to become a confiderable 

 object of revenue, will appear from the following fadls. 



Antw 1 2 1 2, in the Alagna Charta of King Henry III. it 

 is particularly provided, as follows, viz. 



<' That there be one breadth of dyed cloths, rufTets, and 

 ** haberjets, i. e. two yards within the lifts %." 



And, in the year 1284, Edward I. impofes the following 

 duties on woollen goods exported, viz. 



*' For cloth 6ytdfcarlet in gfain f, two fhilllngs a cloth." 



*' Item J 



* Andcrfon's Hiftory of Commerce, p. 189. \ lb. a>ino 1212. 



f By fcarkt in grain we are here certainly to underftand that fine crimfon 

 made from kermes, called afterwards crimfon ingrained, becaufe of its per- 

 manency of colour. Scarlet, properly I'd called, made from cochineal, was 

 not known for many ages afterwards. It was probably the fame colour that 

 is called liczvne in the 47th ad, pa!;liament zd of James II. of Scotland. 



