The linen and cotton broad-ware weavers apology: : Humbly addressed to the gentlemen manufacturers of Manchester, and all others whom it may concern. / By a well-wisher to trade.

  • Justice, Alexander.
Date:
M,DCC,LVIII. [1758]
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Credit: The linen and cotton broad-ware weavers apology: : Humbly addressed to the gentlemen manufacturers of Manchester, and all others whom it may concern. / By a well-wisher to trade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eerste \ FP EE Linem and Cotton Broad-Ware WEAVERS KEX4LMIG HTY Providence: having: pee a) A §*® Man with. innumerable Infirmities, but at *the fame Time given hima fupernatural. area Aid. above all other Animal Beings by mak- whereby he is capable in a great Meafure to, fupply thefe-Defects.he was born into the World with, and Tvs it hath been their Wifdom and Policy toform themfelves.into Nations, Communities, and Societies, not only for the Prefervation of each other, but for the reciprocal Good. of the Whole. And as it was. found neceffary. to fet on foot and. eftablifly feveral.Arts and Sciences, without which they. could not have long, fubfifted ; thefe again thought proper to fub-divide themfelves into different Claffes, according to the dif-. _ ferent. Trades or. Qccupations they followed, amongft. which there is none more neceffary forthe Prefervation _ of the human Species than that of Weaving, if we con- fider. it.in all its different Forms and Ufes; for by — it we are.not only preferved from the Inclemency of the _ Weather, but our Bodies ornamented and decorated in. Ne ae _fuch