Employment the True Source of Happiness Or the Good Uncle And Aunt
Employment the True Source of Happiness Or the Good Uncle And Aunt
Henry Bailey
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Silk was a very scarce commodity among them for many ages: it was even sold for gold, weight for weight, insomuch that Vopiscus tells us, the Emperor Aurelian refused the Empress his wife a suit of silk, which she solicited of him with much earnest- ness, merely on account of the expense. In the year 1521, the French, being supplied with workmen from Milan, commenced a silk ma- nufacture ; but it was not till long after this EMPLOYMENT. 65 time that they could obtain raw silk from the worms; an...d, even in the year 1547, silk was in France both scarce and dear. Henry II. Is said to have been the first who wore a pair of silk knit stockings ; though the in- vention originally came from Spain, whence silk stockings were brought over to Henry VIII. And Edward VI. Of England. Our King James I. Was very earnest for the in- troduction of this useful manufacture into his dominions; and strongly recommended the planting of mulberry-trees for the pro- pagation of silk-worms; but, unhappily, with- out effect.
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