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pieces at

once. But

the Mayor

being

apprehensive

that this

invention

might

throw a

large

number of

workmen on

the

streets,

caused the

inventor

to be

secretly

strangled

or

drowned.”

In Leyden,

this

machine

was not

used till

1629;

there the

riots of

the

ribbon-weavers

at length

compelled

the Town

Council to

prohibit

it. “In

hac urbe,”

says

Boxhorn

(Inst.

Pol.,

1663),

referring

to the

introduction

of this

machine

into

Leyden,