Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-08-01
Origin Of the words Rlaake. wsrssei,
KeFseyneFe and LIusey yol,ev.
While Edward III, in I337. ,

Aerseynere and LInsey wolsey.
While Edward iii, in 1887, re
peated his invasion Of Scotland, an,
"ravaged the country with erea
fury. burning Aberdeen and man,
similar towns" as the historian tell
US; and while he was engaged il
raising an army to invade Franc,
in 1898, exacting from the impover
ished English people all their weal;I
to waste in war; and when he wa,
wasting France with war, borrow
ing money from all foreign prince
who would lend him, pawning III,
English crown which made him
king, that he might still further ex
tend destruction over fertile France
when, in the battles which our his
torians and poets have so minutel,
recorded, and loftily sung ou:, sword,
clashed with swords, and battle ak.
es rung upon the coats of mail, the
warrior-heroes of France, there was
a servant of mankind making a noise
in Bristol, which was of infinitely
greater service to England than the
entire conquest OF Europe would
have been. This was Thomas Blan-
ket. The noise he made was not
that Of the clashing sword, but OF the
ciashing shuttle. His purpose was
not 10 destroy what his country al
ready possessed, but TO give his coun-
try what it did not yet possess
blankets, a covering of comfort to
60 TO bed with, to sleep under, that
it might be refreshed in sound sleep,
and rise in health ard strength to its
daily work of making mankind hap
pier BY being happier itself. Thom-
as Blanket was soon initiated by his
who, like him, set up
looms in their own houses, and made
woollen cloth like that which he
made. The cloth was named by his
name; and 10 this day through all
time in this country will the name
be known, though nothing else is
known Of this weaver than that he
was the first 10 introduce the blanket
in England. -
No cloth Of any kind had been
weaved in England before the reign
IF Edward III. We read that in
1881 John Kemp, from Flanders,
Introduced the weaving Of cloth into
England; that the King invited iul-
ers, Overs, and so forth, to come
rom Flanders and settle here. This
policy on the paIt OF Edward was
liscreet; and, viewed in connection
With some other ofbi actions, prove
Tim TO have had some perception of
he real sources of national we'll
,eing. But he no sooner allowed |
he cloth manufactured to be i'm
,lanted in England, than he almost
ooted it up again by restrictive en-
ctments and oppressive taxes to
AIRY on his wars. The manufac-
ure of the twisted double thread Of
Voollen, called worsted, was intro
uced into England about this time,
r soon after. The village Of Wors-
ed, about fifteen miles from Nor
vich, was the first place where this
bread was made, and it took the
anne Of the village. There is no
pinning nor woollen manufactures
{ Worsted now, but from the tombs
] the grave ward, and the benefac-
ons left 10 the parish, which are
ecorded in the church, we have
roofs that the manufacturers OF
Vorsted were numerous, opulent,
nd lived there in successive genera
ons, during several ce- -turies. II
lay also be noticed here, that after
nquiring into the history of the
arish and manufac urers OF Wors
ID, we visited Linsey, which gave
le name to the fabric known as lin
~ woIsey. and the Kersey and the
Iere close to it in Suffolk, where the
were situated, in which
le cloth called kerseymere was first
ade. The cloth so called now diff
RS from the original, and there is
ut little trade OF any kind in Kersey
ow. But, as at Worsted, the grave
ard and the church have many re- I
,rds Of manufacturers long deceased.
heir names, though now Anglicised
-e common in Suffolk, are all OF
lemish origin.-From Somervill's
rthcoming Geographic History of
rec Trade and the Leage, and the
ioneers Of Progress.
Carpets may be cleaned by pounding ,
em in soft soap suds, and then wash
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