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and since the Reduction of Ireland endeavours are used to set up those Manufactures there; which if suffered will not only endanger the Loss of that Trade to England, but will also lower the Price of Land and Wool here: and praying, That care may be taken to preserve the Trade of the Woollen Manufactures entire to this Kingdom."' —Commons Journal (Engl.), vol. xii. pp. 63-4.
5 10 Wil, III., c. 5 (Irish).
6 10 & 11 Will. III., c. 10 (Eng.)
7 12 Charles II., c. 4; confirmed by 11 Geo. I., c. 7.
8 On all this see specially Benjamin Ward, The State of the Woollen Manufacturers Considered [Lond., 1731] (Halliday Collection of Pamphlets, Royal Irish Academy); The Case of the Woollen Manufacturers of Great Britain in relation to the Trade with France [Lond., 1713]; Argument upon the Woollen Manufacture of Great Britain [Lond. 1737].
"Stopping the Door upon Ireland is only helping in the Cuckoo and has only served to open and enlarge that Trade in Foreign Countries by driving Great Numbers of our Weavers to France and other Places, where they have set up the same trade, and thereby have done England much more Prejudice than if they had stai'd at Home and were allowed to export their Woollen Manufactures."—Prior, Observations on the Trade of Ireland, page 10. (London, 1729.)
9 "(a) . . It seems a little odde that the cheapness of necessarys for life, and goodness of materialls for making all manner of cloth shou'd be made an argument ag'st allowing us to make any, which to me sounds as if one should say to his child, you have a good stomach and here is plenty of
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