...being large and long, there stood two hundred looms full strong; two hundred men wrought in these looms in a row. By every one a pretty boy sat making quills with mickle joy. In another place hard by, one hundred women merrily were carding hard with joyful cheer, and in a chamber...

...Fuller's "Worthies," giving a glowing account of his plant, is of interest: " Within one room, being largc and long, there stood two hundred looms full strong; two hundred men wrought in these looms in a row. By every one a pretty boy sat making quills with mickle joy. In another...

...Winchcombe the prosperity of the great clothier is depicted by Thomas Deloney in the most glowing terms : " Within one room being large and long There stood two...these Looms all in a row. By every one a pretty boy Sate making quills with mickle joy. And in another place hard by, An hundred women merrily Were carding...

...Winchcombe the prosperity of the great clothier is depicted by Thomas Deloney in the most glowing terms : " Within one room being large and long There stood two...these Looms all in a row. By every one a pretty boy Sate making quills with mickle joy. And in another place hard by, An hundred women merrily Were carding...

...John Winchcombe the prosperity of the great clothier is depicted by Thomas Deloney in glowing terms: " Within one room being large and long There stood two hundred Looms full strong: 1 Another example of the endowment of learning by woollen manufacturers is Thomas Crispin, a fuller,...

...who died in 1519 : — >• " Within one roome being large and long, There stood two hundred Loonies full strong ; Two hundred men, the truth is so, Wrought in these Loonies, all in a row." 1 See ante, p. 86. Each weaver was aided by a "pretty boy." Jack also employed...

...picking wool, The finest from the coarse to pull. • Two hundred men, the truth is so, Wrought in their looms, all in a row ; By every one a pretty boy Sat making quills with mickle joy. 3 The burler's business was to remove knots, loose ends, and other impurities. The first process, then,...

...wird 'und in der es heißt: „Within one roome being large and long There stood two hundred Loomes full strong, Two hundred men, the truth is so Wrought in these Loomes All in a row." („In einem Raume, groß und lang, Standen zweihundert Webstühle. Zweihundert...

...of them was John Winch combe, or " Jack of Newbury," as he was called, of whom it is recorded that " Within one room being large and long There stood two hundred Looms full strong," and according to tradition he was rich enough to send a hundred of his journeymen to Flodden Field...

...found a churl of his purse ". This model owner naturally ran a model factory : " Within one room both large and long There stood two hundred looms full strong ; Two hundred men, the truth is so, Wrought at the looms all in a row, By every one a pretty boy Sat making quills with mickle joy : And in another...