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16 Apr 2025, 1:22 am by natashabailey
As journeymen weavers found themselves struggling to make ends meet, they became increasingly frustrated with the failure of parliamentary acts.2 If Benjamin Thatcher, tried for “seditious words” in 1722, did indeed say that he “wish’d he had never been a Weaver” and that “we shall never have any Good Trade while [King George is] alive”, his would have been a common sentiment.3 Enter the “cutters”, journeyman weavers who broke into… [read post]