J. F., author of The Golden Fleece, proposing the establish-
ment of government institutions manufacturing domestic
wool for export, held forth glittering promises of national
profit. Besides removing the charge of pauperism and re-
forming the characters of the begging class, these institu-
tions would "enable us to undersell the Flemmings, French,
etc.," to turn the labor supply of England toward the
undermining of her competitors' hold upon the world
markets, and import in great abundance "the guinea
wedge, the silver bar, our Spanish bullion." ' Again, Lord

' Richard Haines, EnglanXs Weal (1681), passim.
' "These houses are the mother of industry, so 't is most certain that
for want of the same expedients, in every 100/. wool exported unwrought
there is 10002. losses to the nation. . . , Thus all this which might so have
been got by workmanship, etc., being ten times the value of the wool is
clearly lost to the nation, while those who might do it are maintained for
begging, etc." IMd., p. 9.
» J. F., The Golden Fleece (1679), pp. 6-8.
