per annum for three assistants; and 160 l.

for the support of the chaplain.

Mr.M'Call, in his book, copies the following note of payments made by the Government from 1704 to 1708:-- L s.

d.
Louis Crommelin, as overseer of linen manufacture 470 19 0 W.Crommelin, salary and rent of Kilkenny factory 451 6 7 Louis Crommelin, to repay him for sums advanced to flax dressers and reed makers, and for services of French ministers 2,225 0 0 Louis Crommelin, for individual expenses and for sums paid Thomas Turner, of Lurgan, for buying flax-seed and printing reports 993 4 0 Louis Crommelin, three years' pension 600 0 0 French minister's two years' pension 120 0 0 _______________ Total L4,860 9 7 It should be mentioned, that when the owner of Lisburn, then Earl of Hertfort, held the office of lord lieutenant in 1765, with his son, Viscount Beauchamp, as chief secretary, he rendered very valuable services to the linen trade, and was a liberal patron of the damask manufacture, which arrived at a degree of perfection hitherto unequalled, in the hands of Mr.William Coulson, founder of the great establishment of that name which still flourishes in Lisburn, and from whom not only the court of St.James's but foreign courts also received their table linen.

Du Bourdieu mentions that Lisburn and Lurgan were the great markets for cambrics--the name given to cloth of this description, which was then above five shillings a yard; under that price it was called lawn.