The cloathing trade did
flourish here till about 1580, when they removed to Troubridge, by
reason of (I thinke) a plague; but I conjecture the main reason was
that the water here was not proper for the fulling and washing of
their cloath; for this water, being impregnated with iron, did give
the white cloath a yellowish tincture. Mem. In the country hereabout
are severall families that still retaine Walloun names, as Goupy, &c.
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The best white cloaths in England are made at Salisbury, where the
water, running through chalke, becomes very nitrous, and therefore
abstersive. These fine cloathes are died black or scarlet, at London
or in Holland.
Malmesbury, a very neat town, hath a great name for cloathing.
The Art of Cloathing and Dyeing is already donn by Sir William Petty,
and is printed in the History of the Royall Society, writt by Dr.
Spratt, since Bishop of Rochester.
PART II.-CHAPTER XII.
EMINENT CLOATHIERS OF THIS COUNTY.
[IN this chapter there is a long "Digression of Cloathiers of other
Counties," full of curious matter, which is here necessarily omitted.
- J. B.]
.. . SUTTON of Salisbury, was an eminent cloathier: what is become of
his family I know not.
[John] Hall, I doe believe, was a merchant of the staple, at
Salisbury, where he had many houses. His dwelling house, now a taverne
(1669), was on the Ditch, where in the glasse windowes are many
scutchions of his armes yet remaining, and severall merchant markes.
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