ABSTRACT
A proposal by several ladies and others to make, print and paint and stain callicoes in England and also fine linens as fine as in Holland to be made of British flax … they are resolved as one man to admit no man but will themselves subscribe to a joint-stock to carry on the said trade. (Subscribers must be women dressed in calico.) Subscriptions to be opened April 20, 1720 at the China Shop in St. Martin’s near St. Paul’s. (‘Promotions of the South Sea period, 1719–20,’ in Scott, The Constitution and Finance of English, Scottish and Irish Joint-Stock Companies to 1720 , 1911, Vol. 3, p. 450)
