The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-29

condition 81 things and. instead Of making
cloth at home As Of old. ssnt every year far and
| wide across the country to the great clothing
centres to buy material for the household
| liveries, seeking in one place the coarse.
striped cloth OF the old pattern. and In another
the goods OF the new fashion. Fine black
copes OF worsted we're fsvorits gifts Of bene-
fs3tors to churches and a patriotic Norfolk
gentleman. after seeing "tlppet Of One wors-
ted which 10 slmost like silk" decided 10
max his doublst all worsted for worship OF
Norfolk"
Nor was the growth Of English manufac-
turing enterprise In the fifteenth century
conflne ed to the making OF cloth. For q couple
Of hundred years. indeed, the iron trade had
made Of the woald the Black Country Of those
days. and had stirred the Forest OF Dean with
the din OF It's seventy-two movable FORCES
but now what with the metals and what with
the coal OF the country. the merchants OF
England maintain that the kingdom lie OF
greater value under the land than II is above"
In the reign OF Edward w.. when there was q
riot among the Mendlp miners. and the Lord
Chief Justice went down to set a concord
and peace upon the forest OF Mendip."
II 10 said that ten thousand people ap-
peated before him at the place OF trial.
Yet for all this. the native miners could no
longer keep pace with the demands Of their
own country. now that new industries on all
sides required metal that had once gone to
supply the wants OF the farmer only: and
though stores were brought from Sweden and
Spain. the price OF iron went up to double
what II had been before the plague. Even by
the end OF the fourteenth century shlpbuild-
ers were fitting out vessels for foreign as well
as English buyers. English Runsmiths began
to send out Of their workshops brazen guns
and bombards superior to anything made In
France These were said, indeed, to have
given England It's success in the French
war under Henry v. A number Of towns,
big and little. boasted OF their bell foundrIes.
as for example London. Salisbury. Norwich.
Gloucester. and Bridport In 1855 the copper
workers OF Dinant set up their Industry in
England. stealing away from their home uron
the Continent to profit by the cheaper labor
and reader sale in the island kingdom. Elem
fish experts taught to Englishmen the art Of
brickmaKing. and native builders set up
throughout the country the first brick houses
that had been seen in II since the departure OF
the Romano. Arti1cors more ambitious than
skUful even tried to establish a native indus
try OF glass painting as q matter oil fact. there
10 good English fifteenth century glass mt NAL
vern and elsewhere. Instead Of fetching from
abroad carpets and the tapestries used in
Englishmen startel manufactures
at Ramsay. whence may nave como. IL Is suR-
gested. some Of the counterfeit Arras " which
adorned the humber tradesmen's homes
Frames ordained and made for the working
OF silk" were at work: lacomakers AMI ribbon
weavers begged the protection OF the Govern
ment: and English workers sent into tho
market large quantities OF the linen called
Holland. from the country where It was first
produced. Naturally. under such conditions.
tho export OF every kind OF raw material fell
out OF fashion. Traders no longer carried over |
sea undressed skins to be prepared by foreign |
labor. but had the work done by English artI- |
sans at home. Whereas. in fine. at the begin
ming OF tho fifteenth century merchants
brought beer from Prussia to England. at its |
close they were carrying beer from London to
Beer. defined as "A malt liquor |
favored with bitter herbs. and distinct from |
ale" was. It seems. made In England before
l445. though 1t is COMMONLY ascribod to a
much later date.