the same
length of
time. As a
result
there
arose
disturbances
and
complaints
from the
weavers,
until the
Town
Council
finally
prohibited
the use of
this
instrument.]
After
making
various
decrees
more or
less
prohibitive
against
this loom
in 1632,
1639, &c.,
the States
General of
Holland at
length
permitted
it to be
used,
under
certain
conditions,
by the
decree of
the 15th
December,
1661. It
was also
prohibited
in Cologne
in 1676,
at the
