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gave room for complaints, and occafioned inconveniencies 

 that we muft not take time here to fpecify. 



To remedy thefe evils, a project was fet on foot in the 

 year "I57i?> to fend out one Mr Morgan Hiihhlethorney dyer, 

 into Perfia, with a view to perfect himfelf in fome particu- 

 lar branches of the art of dying, which were wanted ; and 

 Mr Richard Hackliiytty of Oxford, a man of great know- 

 ledge in thofe days, having been appointed to draw up a fet 

 of in{lru6i:ions for that occafion, thus exprelTes himfelf 

 refpe£ling Englifli wool, in the preface to thefe inftruc- 

 tions. 



" For that England hath the beft luocl and cloth in the 

 <« world *," &c. 



And in another fet of inftruftions for a principal Englifli 

 fatflor at Conftantinople, are the following remarkable par- 

 ticulars on this head. 



« Firft, You cannot denie that this realme yeeldeth the 

 " mojl fine wooll, the mo^fofty the moft ilrong wooll, the 

 " moft durable cloth, and moft apt of nature of all other 

 " to receive die ; and no ifland, or any other kingdome io 

 " fmall, doeth yeeld fo great abundance of the fame, &c. 



" Spaine now aboundeth with woolls, and the fame are 

 " clothed (i.e. draped, or made into cloth). Turkic hath 

 " woolls, and fo have divers provinces of Chriftendome anJ 

 ^^ Heathenefle, and cloth is madeof tliem in divers places. 



" I ft, But if England have the moft fine and the moft 

 « excellent woolls of the world in all refpeds (as it can- 

 << not be denied but it hath)-, 2d, If there may bee added 

 *< to the fame excellent artificiall, and true making, and ex- 

 " cellent dying ; 3d, Then no doubt but we fliall have 

 *♦ vent for our clothes, although the world did abound 

 *' much more with woolls than it doeth f," &c. 



INIr Arthur Edwards, agent for the Rufllan Company 

 ajino 156S, gives the following particulars refpecling the 



trade 

 * Hackluytt's Collections, vol. II. p. 161. f lb, p. 163. 



