at
the Rate of 12 d. _per_ Pound, it will amount to the Sum of 14025 l. in
each County, which undoubtedly will compleat the House and Materials.

Obj. 3. _But this Method will not hold, because one County hath not so many
Parishes as another_.

_Answ._ It matters not; Let each County build proportionally to their Money
as it will arise at 12 d. _per_ Pound, we doubt not but it will be
sufficient.

_Obj. 4._ It may further be Objected as impossible, _That the Spinning
Engine should turn to account, because as oft as one Spinner has occasion
to stop, all the rest must be idle; and again, since every Wheel hath its
motion alike, and several Spinners work some faster, some slower, therefore
all considered, this Project will make but a Confusion._

_Answ._ To this I reply; Any one may stop, and the rest work on, and also
may vary the motion of each Spinning Instrument, so as the nimblest and the
slowest may have their desire: Nor may these Instruments be contemned,
since they are as cheap as the other, and so ordered that the Spinners may
sit or stand when they please; which doubtless will be a good conveniency.

The Invention of these Engines is wholly mine, and if they prove
effectual, I hope I shall not be deprived of receiving some benefit
thereof; because I am so free, as in effect to discover it beforehand.
However, I submit to what the Pleasure of Authority shall allow; And to
the intent these Hospitals may never fail of encouragement, that the
Invention may be for ever secured to them, and prohibited to all
others, so that the same may be improved only for their benefit, and
private persons not take the advantage thereof to the prejudice of this
our pious and necessary Design: I doubt not but many will say, Tush!
this is easie; any body may invent such things as these.--Thus the
Industry of one is gratified with the contempt of others: Howbeit I
leave it with all humble submission to the grave Wisdom aforesaid, to
consider,

1. Whether these great Hospitals may not become Nurseries for bringing up
all poor peoples Children to Industry, and how by a Methodical Government
every one may be so encouraged, that one striving to excel the rest, in
very short time, the finest Linnen may be made at home upon far better
terms than what comes from beyond the Seas; and whether there be not a
probability, if the Engines take, that we may come to transport Linnen upon
as g