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The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain - Volume 3

Leonard Williams

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. . .Philip the Third was on the throne, the expulsion of the Moriscos precipitated the utter ruin of this industry.

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THE “BANNER OF SAINT FERDINAND”
(Seville Cathedral)

The Spanish government proved quite incapable of grappling with these wrongs and difficulties. There were, however, numerous attempts to legislate in the direction of reform. Measures forbidding the introduction of silk proceeding from abroad received the royal signature in 1500, 1514, 1525, 1532, and 1552. A petition to the same effect,[41] framed by the procurators of the Cortes, was presented to the king in 1618, urging that no skein or twisted silk proceeding from the Portuguese Indies, China, or Persia should be imported into Spain in view of the damage thus inflicted on the silk-producing regions of Granada, Murcia, and Valencia. At the same time the petitioners suggested that if it should be found impracticable to suppress such impo. . . Read More