 | Samuel Smiles - Huguenots - 1867 - 594 pages
...pastoral and agricultural, and by no means a manufacturing people. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, most articles of clothing, excepting such...from Flanders, France, and Germany.* The great staple was wool, which was sent abroad in vast quantities. " The ribs of all people throughout the world,"... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Business & Economics - 1875 - 430 pages
...of all people throughout the world are kept warm by the fleeces of English wool," (Matthew Paris). " Most articles of clothing, excepting such as were...were imported from Flanders, France and Germany. The names of the articles to this day indicate the places where they were manufactured. Thus there was... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Business & Economics - 1875 - 438 pages
...of all people throughout the world are kept warm by the fleeces of English wool." (Matthew Paris). " Most articles of clothing, excepting such as were produced by ordinary domestic industry, wore imported from Flanders, France and Germany. The names nf the articles to this day indicate the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 520 pages
...part a pastoral and agricultural, and not a manufacturing people. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, most articles of clothing, excepting such...industry, were imported from Flanders, France, and Germany.1 The great staple of England was Wool, which was sent abroad in large quantities. " The ribs... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1882 - 442 pages
...of all people throughout the world are kept warm by the fleeces of English wool," (Matthew Paris). " Most articles of clothing, excepting such as were...were imported from Flanders, France and Germany. The names of the articles to this day indicate the places where they were manufactured. Thus there was... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1882 - 430 pages
...of all people throughout the world are kept warm by the fleeces of English wool," ^Matthew Paris). " Most articles of clothing, excepting such as were...were imported from Flanders, France and Germany. The names of the articles to this day indicate the places where they were manufactured. Thus there was... | |
 | Franklin Henry Giddings - Historical sociology - 1906 - 588 pages
...part a pastoral and agricultural, and not a manufacturing people. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, most articles of clothing, excepting such...the world," wrote Matthew Paris, " are kept warm by the fleeces of English wool." The wool and its growers were on one side of the English Channel, and... | |
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... agricultural country. She produced an abundance of excellent wool, but her workshops were on the Continent, among the Flemings, whither English wool was carried to be converted into cloth. " The ribs of all people throughout the world are kept warm... 