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full coal cars could then be sent down by gravity and the empty
wagons pulled up by horses. Sheet metal, e.g. lead, was used for
roofing. Coal was much used for heating houses, and for laundry,
cooking, and industrial use, such as extraction of salt, soap
boilers, and manufacture of glass, bricks and tiles for buildings,
anchors for ships, and tobacco pipes. It was used in the trades:
bakers, confectioners, brewers, dyers, sugar refiners, coopers,
starch makers, copper workers, alum makers, and iron workers.
In 1604 the Haberdashers, who sold imported felt for hats, got a
charter of incorporation.
A tapestry factory was established in 1619.
Flax-working machines came into existence.
As Attorney General, Edward Coke was impassioned and melodramatic.
He once described the parts of the penalty of treason as follows:
being drawn to the place of execution reflected the person's not
being worthy any more to tread upon the face of the earth; being
drawn backward at a horse tail was due to his retrograde nature;
being drawn head downward on the ground indicated that he was
unfit to breathe the common air; being hanged by the neck between
heaven and earth indicated that he was unworthy of either; being
cut down alive and his privy parts cut off and burnt before his
face indicated he was unworthily begotten and unfit to leave any
generation after him; having his bowels and inners taken out and
burnt indicated he had inwardly conceived and harbored such
horrible treason; his head cut off, which had imagined the
treason, and his body to be quartered and the quarters set up to
the view and detestation of men a prey for the fowls of the air.
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