The King told him he was
afraid he had undone himself; he replied that his own servants should
only want their supper for it. [See this anecdote also in Fuller's
Worthies, Wiltshire. - J. B.] Leland sayes that when he was there the
dortures and other great roomes were filled with weavers' loomes. [The
following is the passage referred to (Leland's Itinerary, vol. ii. p.
27.) "The hole logginges of th' abbay be now longging to one Stumpe,
an exceeding rich clothiar, that boute them of the king. This Stumpe
was the chef causer and contributor to have th' abbay chirch made a
paroch chirch. At this present tyme every corner of the vaste houses
of office that belongid to th' abbay be full of lumbes to weeve cloth
yn, and this Stumpe entendith to make a strete or 2 for cloathiers in
the back vacant ground of the abbay that is withyn the town waulles.
There be made now every yere in the town a 3,000 clothes." See
"Memorials of the Family of Stumpe", by Mr. J. G. Nichols, in
"Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica", vol. vii. - J. B.]
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Mr. Paul Methwin of Bradford succeeded his father-in-law in the trade,
and was the greatest cloathier of his time (tempore Caroli 2nd). He
was a worthy gentleman, and died about 1667. Now (temp. Jacobi II.)
Mr. Brewer of Troubridge driveth the greatest trade for medleys of any
cloathier in England.
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