[AUBREY addressed to his friend Mr. Francis Lodwyck, merchant of
London, a project on the wool trade; proposing, amongst other things,
a duty on the importation of Spanish wool, with a view to raise the
price of English wool, and consequently the rent of land. (See the
Note on this subject in the preceding page.) Mr. Lodwyck's letter in
reply, fully discussing the question, may be consulted in Aubrey's
manuscript by any one interested in the subject It is inserted in the
chapter now under consideration; which contains also a printed
pamphlet with the following title:- "A Treatise on Wool, and the
Manufacture of it; in a letter to a friend: occasioned upon a
discourse concerning the great abatements and low value of lands.
Wherein it is shewed how their worth and value may be advanced by the
improvement of the manufacture and price of our English wooll.
Together with the Presentment of the Grand Jury of the County of
Somerset at the General Quarter Sessions begun at Brewton the 13th day
of January 1684. London. Printed for William Crooke, at the Green
Dragon without Temple Bar. 1685." (Sm. 4to. pp. 32.) - J. B.]
THE falling of rents is a consequence of the decay of the Turky-trade;
which is the principall cause of the falling of the price of wooll.
Another reason that conduces to the falling of the prices of wooll is
our women's wearing so much silk and Indian ware as they doe. By these
meanes my farme at Chalke is worse by sixty pounds per annum than it
was before the civill warres.
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