The science of social adjustment / by Sir Josiah Stamp.

  • Stamp, Josiah, Sir, 1880-1941.
Date:
1937
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The science of social adjustment / by Sir Josiah Stamp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tliey uspil to have Safeguards, and Hoods, Side-Saddles and Pillions, with Stra])pins, Saddle or Pillion-cloths, which (for the most jiart) were either laced or imhroydercd ; to the making of which there went many several trades, seeing there is not one Side-Saddle with the furniture made, hut before it he furnished, there are at least thirty several trades, have a share in the making thereof, most of which are either destroyed, or greatly jirejudiced hy the Abatement of their Trade ; Which being bred unto, and having served seven years Apprentiship to learn, they know not what other course to take for a Livelyhood. And besides all these inferior Handy- Craftsmen, there are the Mercers, Silkmen, Lace-men, Milliners, Linnen and Woollen Drapers, Haberdashers, and divers other Eminent Trades, that receive great prejudice by this way of Travelling : For the Mercers sold Silk and Stuff in great quantities for Safeguards, Hoods, and Riding Clothes for M omen ; by which means the Silk-Twisters, Winders, Thro- seters, M'eavers and Dyers, had a fuller Imployment, the SiLk- men sold more Lace and Imbroidery, which, kept the Silver- Wyre-Drawers, Lace-i\Iakers and Imbroyderers. And at least ten Trades more were imployed ; The Linnen-Draper sold more Linnen, not only to Sadlers to make up Sadies, but to Travellers for their own Use, nothing wearing out Linnen more than riding. Woollen-Drapers sold more cloth than now ; Sadlers used, before these Coaches were set up, to buy 3 or 400 L. worth of cloth apiece in a year, nay some Five hundred and a Thousand pounds worth, which they cut out into Saddles and Pillion-Cloths ; though now there is no Sadler can dispose of One Hundred pounds worth of Cloth in a year in his Trade. The Milliners and Haberdashers, they also sold more Ribbons, Gloves, Hoods, Scarfs, and other things belonging to their Trade ; the dust, dirt and rain, and riding on Horseback, spoiling and wearing them out, much more than travelling in a Coach ; and on Horseback those things were apter to be lost than in a Coach. Then he goes into morals anti ethics : For pa.ssage to London being so easie. Gentlemen came to