"[7] The trade was accordingly thrown open. Silk
mills were erected at Stockport and elsewhere; Hutton says that
divers additional mills were erected in Derby; and a large and
thriving trade was established. In 1850, the number employed in
the silk manufacture exceeded a million persons. The old mill
has recently become disused. Although supported by strong wooden
supports, it showed signs of falling; and it was replaced by a
larger mill, more suitable to modern requirements.
Footnotes for Chapter IV.
[1] "This was equally the case with two other trades;-- those of
glass-maker and druggist, which brought no contamination upon
nobility in Venice. In a country where wealth was concentrated
in the hands of the powerful, it was no doubt highly judicious
thus to encourage its employment for objects of public advantage.
A feeling, more or less powerful, has always existed in the minds
of the high-born, against the employment of their time and wealth
to purposes of commerce or manufactures. All trades, save only
that of war, seem to have been held by them as in some sort
degrading, and but little comporting with the dignity of
aristocratic blood." Cabinet Cyclopedia--Silk Manufacture, p. 20.
[2] A Brief State of the Inland or Home Trade. (Pamphlet.) 1730.
[3] A Brief State of the Case relating to the Machine erected at
Derby for making Italian Organzine Silk, which was discovered and
brought into England with the utmost difficulty and hazard, and
at the Sole Expense of Sir Thomas Lombe.
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