It has filled our popular literature with old wives' tales of the worthies of England, in which the clothiers Thomas of Reading and Jack of Newbury rub elbows with Friar Bacon and Robin Hood.
The clothiers grew rapidly in wealth and importance, and in certain parts of the country became the backbone of the middle class.
Isaac's two eldest sons were clothiers likewise, but soon after their father's death they retired from business.
For a charming account of another famous family of clothiers see B.
Hardly a week but the clatter of the pack-horse would be heard in the straggling streets, bringing in new stores of wool to be worked and taking away the pieces of cloth to the clothiers of Colchester and the surrounding villages.
Moreover, the clothiers sometimes owned and let out looms to their work-people, and then also part of the industrial independence of the weaver was lost.
Such was not always the case, for if the clothiers of this age had some of the virtues of capitalists, they also had many of their vices, and the age-old strife of capital and labour was already well advanced in the fifteenth century.
So the beautiful house passed out of the hands of the great family of clothiers who had held it for nearly a hundred years.
See also the petition of the Clothiers of Gloucester in the Commons' Journal, Nov.
Trade of Clothing is very much used, and therefore it may in all reason be deemed, that your Honours knowledge of (and acquaintance with) Clothiers and their Imployments is more than ordinary.
Some merchant clothiers also owned a fulling mill and a shop where the cloth was sold.
This to protect the weavers' ability to maintain themselves and their families from rich clothiers who keep many looms and employ journeymen and unskillful persons at low wages.
Persons such as sorters who purloin or embezzle wool or yarn delivered to them by clothiers and the receivers thereof, knowing the same, shall recompense the party grieved or else be whipped and set in the stocks.
Clothiers not paying wages within two days of delivery of work were to forfeit 40s.
From concurrent antiquarian authorities we learn that the church was built by the De Veres, in conjunction with the Springs, wealthyclothiers at Lavenham.
By this quick Return the Clothiers are constantly supplied with Money, their Workmen are duly paid, and a prodigious Sum circulates thro' the Country every week.
Wilson, clothiers and outfitters, which was then conducted by the father and uncle of the present proprietor, Mr. Joseph Wilson.
Scatcherd says that in his district the clothiers united in groups of three or four, and at the Leeds winter fair they would purchase an ox, which, having divided, they salted and hung the pieces for their winter's food.
Weyhill Fair, near Andover, was another of the great fairs in the same district, which was to the West country agriculturists and clothiers what Winchester St. Giles's Fair was to the general merchants.
It was evidently a time when the trade was developing rapidly, and when an employing class of capitalists and clothiers was springing up among the weavers.
In the case of the Coventry Clothiers there is an exception which is of interest; the master might give instruction to persons who were not apprenticed as "charity to poor and impotent people for their better livelihood.
When the Flemish clothiers came into England, the manufacture improved; in spite of the regulating power of the state, which was perpetually interfering with material, quality, and wages.
He constructed a clock, and in order to make it useful to theclothiers who attended Leeds market from Earls and Hanging Heaton, Dewsbury, Chickenley, etc.
What should we say of an establishment which should regularly supply half the clothiers with their wool under the market price?
Its sole effect then, would be to swell the profits of a part of the clothiers beyond the general and common rate of profits.
Royal Clothiers during the day, it was necessary that she work at this saloon, or whatever you want to call it at night.
In 1525, there was a general decay of work, the clothiers and farmers being unable to employ the artisans and labourers, who began to rise in revolt against the heavy taxes.
It was not merely the prosperity of the clothiers of Wiltshire and of the West Riding that was at stake; but the dignity of the Crown, the authority of the Parliament, and the unity of the empire.
The dissenting preachers and the clothiers were peculiarly zealous.
Clothiers not paying wages within two days of delivery of work forfeited 40s.
The whole evidence seems to limit the spheres of influence of the capitalistclothiers to a few definite towns prior to the beginning of the fifteenth century.
In 1390 it was pointed out that the frauds of the west country clothiers had not only endangered the reputations, and even the lives, of merchants who brought them for export, but had brought dishonour on the English name abroad.
Our clothiers would probably have been able to defend themselves against it; but it happens that the greater part of our principal clothiers are themselves likewise dyers.
The Midland Clothiers Company had no sense of the proprieties of trade.
However, the offer of the Midland Clothiers Company tempted him, and as the undisputed 'father' of the Square he left the Square in triumph.
Thus she was turned out of her house, but not by the Midland Clothiers Company.
Some merchantclothiers also owned a fulling mill and a shop where it was sold.
Clothiers not paying wages within two days of delivery of work shall forfeit 40s.
Hither came the officials of the Merchant Tailors' Company bearing a silver yard measure, to try the measures of the clothiers and drapers to see if they were correct.
