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,
