Atlas Obscura often has a good story to tell. This one is from Tuder times (unless you prefer to consider Elisabeth as Boleyn)
A Machine That Made Stockings Helped Kick Off the Industrial Revolution
by Sarah Laskow September 19, 2017
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/machine-silk-stockings-industrial-revolution-queen-elizabeth
Sarah Laskow gave a subtitle:
Queen Elizabeth I wanted none of it.
Here is the quote that goes with it:
Queen Elizabeth had some sense of what mechanically produced stockings might mean, and she wanted none of it. “I have too much love for my poor people who obtain their bread by the employment of knitting to give my money to forward an invention that will tend to their ruin by depriving them of employment and thus making them beggars,” she pronounced.
Both Elisabeth and Oliver Cromwell persecuted Catholics. If Chesterton appreciated the latter for at least not banning beer, I think he would also have appreciated to mention this good side of Elisabeth./HGL
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