Series 5 > British Linen Company, 1745-1775

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THE BRITISH LINEN COMPANY
woof; 250 or 300 doz at most of 7 qrs, to cost from 3/- to 3/5d; 130 or 150
at most of 8/4 table cloths to cost from 3/10 to 4/6d per yd.
That is seventeen hundred and eighty dozen of Table cloths in all, to be
made ready betwixt and the first of August next. In part of which we shall
reckon those that now are and have been delivering in since last bleaching
season was over. We expect you will make the 7 and 8 qr Table cloths of an
equal assortment of prices, that is to say, an equal proportion of the highest and
lowest prices mentioned. We desire you make the % Table cloths that used
to cost 21 d per cloth of yam one degree finer for which we are satisfied to
allow from V^d to 1 d more per cloth. We have not yet heard how the clouting
diaper as now altered please at London, but as soon as we hear you shall likewise
have an order for it.
To William Forsyth, Cromarty
1 January 1756
We have to reply to yours of the 15th. The bills on Alexander MacKenzie &
Co for _£162 19/- transmitted you and now returned are placed to your credit.
You write us that these gentlemen are still of the opinion to give up their
spinning business at Dingwall and propose your brother’s settling there. We
truly cannot advise you to that just now, for if the bounty shall be renewed as
the Ministry have promised, it is more than probable our Directors will think
of introducing the manufacture in whole into that place and neighbourhood.
And for that purpose probably engage some people here that have been bred
to and practised in the arts of sorting, boiling, bleaching and weaving yams to
setr'e at Dingwall, so that the method may from thence be spread all over the
neighbourhood. However nothing can be said about it till we see how the
application to Parliament succeeds.
To George Young, Coupar Angus
17 January 1756
With regard to the affairs of the country we can only advise you that the greatest
part of the Ministry have signified their intentions of being willing it should
be granted and it was to have been in before the house this week but we cannot
say anything about it with certainty till the thing is done. There is to be
opposition by the Glasgow people joined by a few from this place against the