英语翻译
The domestic industries of Oxfordshire that still survive are very numerous,though perhaps not always of any considerable importance.The best known at the present time is blanket-making at Witney.As early as the reign of Henry III Witney was evidently a town of clothiers.Mr.Thorold Rogers considers that blanket-making was already an industry in Witney in 1385.(fn.16) During the Tudor period the trade continued to thrive,and in the seventeenth century the family of Early began to manufacture blankets,which they still continue to do.At the beginning of the eighteenth century the formation of a blanket-makers' company was supposed to be likely to help on the trade,but the industry flourished in spite of the company rather than because of it.Towards the end of that period a very large quantity of blankets was sent regularly to London by wagons.The introduction of machinery may have been a temporary inconvenience,but it certainly helped to increase the output,which to-day is far greater than it has ever been before.