. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. me ofthem having been thrown out of employment by the improvements in manufacture,and many by their intemperate habits. The long hairs are now removed by aspiral steel blade fixed on a revolving cylinder, which gives a fine, even nap to thecloth. The hand teasel-brush was used for brushing the cloth, one being held ineach hand ; this is now done by machinery, the teasels being placed in a long,narrow iron frame, worked by steam power. There were formerly twelve free companies in Kendal, which gradually becameextin
. Trade tokens issued in the seventeenth century in England, Wales, and Ireland. me ofthem having been thrown out of employment by the improvements in manufacture,and many by their intemperate habits. The long hairs are now removed by aspiral steel blade fixed on a revolving cylinder, which gives a fine, even nap to thecloth. The hand teasel-brush was used for brushing the cloth, one being held ineach hand ; this is now done by machinery, the teasels being placed in a long,narrow iron frame, worked by steam power. There were formerly twelve free companies in Kendal, which gradually becameextinct, the last of them, the Cordwainers, being broken up in 1800, in consequenceof Robert Moser, one of the craft, refusing to recognise any legal power in theVOL. II. 78 1222 TRADERS TOKENS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. company to impose a fine upon persons, not being freemen, commencing businesswithin the borough. Monopoly was obliged to succumb to Moser, and the charterwas declared to be powerless. 8. O. edmond . adlington = The Dyers Arms. R. IN . KENDAL . 1659 = E . I . A. J. One Edward Adlington was sworn a shearman-dyer in 1649 (Kendal Boke ofRecorde ). The family came originally from Yealand, in Lancashire, and carriedon business there and at Kendal. They were Quakers, and tradition says thatEdmund was a man of immense bulk, weighing upwards of twenty-four stone,and that his wife was of little inferior weight, being upwards of twenty-two retired from business, and died at a great age. Nicolson and Burns History of Westmorland, i., p. 536, on the authority ofFrancis Higginson, Vicar of Kirkby-Stephen in the time of Cromwell, states : Some of the Quakers stood naked on the market cross on market days,preaching to the people, particularly the wife of one Edmond Adlington, whowent naked through the streets there. This is corroborated by Mrs. Greer, who, in The Society of Friends, vol. ii.,p. 189, says, The wife of Edmund Adlington, of Kendal, went through the streets n
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