3. The third is to enquire why the People of _England_ are so much against their Native Manufactures as to be more in love with _Calicoes_ and _Indian Silks_? The chief reason is Fashion and Imitation of One another, though many others are alledged, as the Ruffness and Ill Colour of Woollen, which keeps it from answering the ends of _Calicoes_, Its weight and thickness, which renders it improper for the ends of slight Silks in Linings; These are not substantial but pretended Reasons, and would as well serve against _Calicoes_ and _Indian Silks_ were we more used to our Native Manufactures, and they now to be introduced; for as to the Ruffness of Woollen, may not that be helpt by its fineness? and are not course _Calicoes_ altogether as Ruff? A fine Flannen-Shirt feels soft and pleasant to him that hath been used to wear it, so strange Impressions do Custom and Fashion make on us; and as for Colour, it is only Fancy, when Yellow is in Fashion it looks as decent as White, and as much Art is needful to strike it well as there is Curiosity about the other, witness when Women wore Yellow Hoods, both Men and Women Yellow Vestments, besides, no doubt ways might be found out to add to the Native Whiteness of our Woollen Manufactures, which do not therein fall shorter of Calicoes than they do of _Hollands_ and _Cambricks_ and as to the ends of Silks, Thinness and Lightness, I think our Workmen have given very great Instances in their _Crapes_, _Gauzes_ and _Antherines_ what they could do had they Encouragement. But if a Manufacture of _Wool_ will not please, why may not one of _Cotton_, the _Primum_ of which _Calicoes_ are made, whereof we have great quantities imported every Year from our own Plantations in _America_, and no doubt we might in a short time attain to an excellency therein, not only to supply our selves, but also Foreign Markets; He that considers how far we have gone in this already will have no cause to doubt a Progress, and if Encouragements were proposed to that Person who should spin the finest Thread either in Cotton or Wool, to be adjudged and paid in each County, 'twould excite Industry and Ingenuity, and no doubt we might in time make Calicoes equal in their sorts with those Imported from _India_, and afford them as cheap as that Company now sells them, enough not only for our home Expenee, but also for Exportation.