Penny Dreadfuls, 1736 · page 6 of 16
Thoughts on Trade — page 6: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is running prose from page 6 of what appears to be an economic or trade-focused pamphlet or tract (not a penny dreadful as initially suggested—the content and typography indicate an 18th-century political-economic work). The text discusses English commercial concerns about French woollen and silk manufactures underselling English goods both domestically and abroad, questioning whether French mills rely on smuggled English wool. It proposes remedies: developing Irish manufacturing and trade in flax and linen to compete with foreign producers, arguing that Irish workers could excel in these industries if permitted and encouraged.
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Bisa « elf affects the Exglifp ‘Trade. The Woollen and Silken Manufactures in France are come to be fo very confidera- ble, and are brought to fuch Perfection, as after Cloathing Eighteen Million of their own People, they have Goods enough to under-fell the Angl/b Abroad, and clande- ftinely Import into Eug/and wrought Silks, and fell them Cheaper than We can do: Is it then to be believed, that fuch numerous - Manufa@tures, are fupported by Wool Run from England and Ireland? It being a Queftion, whether all the Wool. raifed in both Kingdoms, be fuficient to fupply ‘the Wool- fen Manufactures in France? This being the Cafe, what can be done to mend and recover Trade? Induftrious At- temps and good Oeconomy: Begin by Working in Ireland, and Trading with the Goods raifed and manufactured in that King- dorn ;. to fuch Markets theEmg/i/b are under- fold; for in Ireland, Proois are given what is to. be done in, Trade. In raifing. and manufacturing Flax, and Trading freely with the fame ; the People in Jreland are come to out-do Foreigners in feveral forts of Linnen, as they foon would doin Woollen, if allowed. and encouraged to to Parliament ? No, fomething 0 IC CS 5 (ale)