a coverlet for a bed. A stuff commonly made of white wool, and wrought in a loom like cloth; with this difference, that they are crossed like sashes.

When they come from the loom, they are sent to the fuller; and after they have been fulled and well cleaned, they are naped with a fuller's thistle.

There are blankets made with the hair of several animals; as that of goats, dogs, and others.

French blankets, called **Paris mantles**, pay duty £2s. 11d. each, if coloured and the manufacture of France; otherwise only £5s. 1½d. If uncoloured, and the manufacture of France, they pay each £9s. 8½d. otherwise only £3s. 10½d. Blankets imported into France, pay a duty of importation according to their fineness; namely, those of fine wool, six livres per piece; those of coarse and middling wool, three livres. None can be imported but by the way of Calais and St Valery.