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Promotion of Linen Industry

England · Government / Government of England. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1637Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1637

Thomas Wentworth Strafford, 1st1637

Ireland · Government / Government of England

Wentworth encouraged linen production as an export industry that would not compete directly with English woollens.

Names involved

Thomas Wentworth Strafford, 1st

Provenance

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