Second Shetland Truck System ReportGuthrie, William
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Second Shetland Truck System Report
Guthrie, William
Labor law -- Truck system -- History -- England; Shetland (Scotland) -- History
1684. Was that long ago?-No, not long ago; it was when I sold
my last shawl to him.
1685. Would that be a month or two?-Yes.
1686. Was a line given to you for the whole price of the shawl that
you were selling, or was it only for the balance?-27s., was the
price of the shawl.
1687. How much of that did you take in goods?-I took about one
half of it, and I got a line for the rest.
1688. Did you take the line out in goods afterwards-Yes.
1689. You did not think of asking money for the line?-No; I
never asked money at that time.
1690. Did you ever know of people selling their lines to their
neighbours?-No.
1691. Or dealing with them in any way, or letting their neighbours
get goods for them?-No.
1692. How much of the 27s., the price of your last shawl, did you
get in money?-7s.
1693. When was that?-I think about two months ago, I do not
recollect exactly.
1694. Was the 7s. all that you asked for?-Yes; I asked for the 7s.
and he said he would give it to me.
1695. Did you take 4s. or 5s, worth of goods at the same time?-
Yes; or perhaps more.
1696. And the rest in a line?-Yes.
Lerwick, January 3, 1872, JEMIMA SANDISON, examined.
1697. Are you a knitter in Lerwick?-Yes.
1698. Do you knit with your own wool?-No.
1699. Do you knit for merchants in the town?-Yes; for Mr.
Robert Sinclair.
1700. Have you a pass-book?-Yes. [Produces it.]
1701. Do you deal with Mr Sinclair in the way which has been
described already by the Witnesses you have heard?-No.
1702. Do you deal in a different way?-Yes.
1703. How is that? You get wool from him to knit into shawls or
veils?-Yes; chiefly veils.
1704. The goods you get are entered in the passbook you have
produced, and the goods given in are entered at the end of it?-
Yes.
1705. Are the goods supplied to you always goods which you are
requiring for your own use?-Yes.
1706. You do not sell any of them, or get them for your
neighbours?-No; unless such goods as my own family require.
1707. Do you live with your own family?-Yes; with my mother.
1708. Do you get part of the payment for your shawls and veils in
money?-Yes; whenever I ask money I get it. I never asked a
shilling from Mr. Sinclair himself but that I always got it.
1709. When you got money for a shawl, how was it entered in the
book?-I cannot say anything about that.
1710. If you were to take two veils to Mr. Sinclair and ask the
money for them, do you think you would get it?-I cannot say,
because I never asked it; but whenever I asked for a small quantity
of money, such as 2s. or the like of that, I got it.
1711. What quantity of goods did you generally take at a time?-I
cannot say that either. I don't think I ever had money to get out of
his book. I was always due him something, and in that way I could
not ask him for money.
1712. Then your account was larger than the value of the articles
which you took to him?-Yes.
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