of O XFO%p^S HI%E. 
hxigvporfted ftockingsy of head mol and hay wovl^ t\\ty make the 
hlanhts of 1 2, 1 1, and i o quarters broadband fomtimes fend it, if 
it bear a good price, to Kederminfter for making their Stuffs, and 
to Evejham^ Parjhore^ ifrc for making j^r« flockings ; or into Eftx 
for making Bays^ whence one fort of them I fuppofe is called bay 
wool: of the ordinary and middle they make blankets o( 8 and 7 
quarters broad ; and of thefe mixt with the courfer locks of fleece 
wodll^ a fort of fluff they call Duffields (which if finer than ordi- 
nary, they make too of fleece wooll) of which Duffields and blankets 
conlifts the chief Trade of Witney, 
I J I. Thefe Dufields^ fo called from a Town in Brabant^ here 
the trade of them firft began (whence it came to Colchefler^ Brain - 
/rf, is^c. and fo to Witney') other wife called fiags^ and by the Mer- 
chants^ truckingcloth ; they make mpiecesof about 30 yards long, 
and one yard \ broad, and dye them red or blue^ which are the co- 
lours beft pleafe the Indians of Virginia and New England^ with 
w^hom the Merchants truck them for Bever^ and other Furs of fe= 
veral Beafls, i^c. the ufe they have for them is to apparel them- 
felves with them, their manner being to tear them mw gowns of a- 
bout two yards long, thrufting their arms through two holes made 
for that purpofe, and fo wrapping the reft about them as we our 
loofe Coats, Our Merchants have abufed them for many years with 
fo falfe colours, that they will not hold their glofs above a rnontbs 
wear ; but there is an ingenious per/on o{ Witney that has improved 
them much of late, by fixing upon them a nut blue dje^ having 
an eye of red^ whereof as foon as the Indians fliall be made fenfi- 
ble, and the difturbances now amongfl them over, no doubt the 
trade inthofe will be much advanced again. 
172. Of their beft tail wooll they make the blankets of 6 quar- 
ters broad, commonly called cutSy which ferve Sea- men for their 
Hammocs, and of their worft they make Wednel for Collar-makers j 
wrappers to pack their blanckets in, and tilt-cloths for Barge-men. 
They fend all the forts of Duffields and Blankets weekly in waggons 
up to London^ which return laden with/e// iroc//from Leaden-hall^ 
zndBarnabj-flreetin Soutbwark-, whether 'tis brought for this pur- 
pofe from moft places above-mention'd ; Oxford-J/jire^nd the ad- 
iacent Counties being not able to fupply them. 
I 73. There arealfo in this Town a great many Fell-mongers^ 
out of whom at the neighboring Town of Bampton^ there arifes 
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