Petition from cloth workers to Sir Edward Dering

Folger bibliographic ID: 266918
Folger call number: X.d.719
Folger holdings ID: 352912
Accession Number: 267624

Requests Dering's "vtmost Assistance" in remedying the problems arising from the injury to their livelihoods caused by English merchants who have been "supplying both ffrance, fflanders, and Holland with great quantities of Wooll, Woolfells, Woollen yarne, ffullers Earth, and Tobacco Pipe Clay &c And likewise Clothes and Stuffs of the new drapery, vndyed vndressed and vnfinished, constantly from England and Ireland but haue further indeuoured to vndermine the very Trade & interest of these his Maties Kingdomes, etc." and requesting whereby wee may hope to enioy A reall good by the restauration of our Woollen Manufactures." With names of 100 petitioners

General notes

Title devised by cataloger "This coppy is taken out of the originall by yor humble seruant Francis Monck." Contemporary copy on two sheets pasted together

Extended title: Petition from cloth workers to Sir Edward Dering ca. 1680
Alternate titles: Humble petition of [the] clothiers of the old and new draperies by the names of clothiers, cloth workers, dyers, bays, serge & say makers, & other stuff makers the worsted combers, weauers, turkers, rowers, milners, spinsters, with diuers others relating to the woolen manufactury of England &c, To the Honoble Sr Edward Deering Knt, one of [the] Lords Com[m]issionrs of his Maties Tresurie &c, To the Honoble Sr Edward Deering Knt, one of [the] Lords Comissionrs of his Maties Tresury &c

Clothing workers Wool industry Great Britain

subject: Great Britain
correspondent: Dering, Edward, Sir, 1625-1684
scribe: Monck, Francis, active approximately 1680