3426. Were these your own peats?-Yes.
3427. Therefore you had no other means except by knitting?-No; except that for some time back I have had 1s. a week from the parochial board.
3428. Before you got that, did you support yourself entirely by knitting?-Yes; only at times I have got some things from friends.
3429. Did you get your meal and provisions from the proceeds of your knitting?-Yes.
3430. How did you manage that, when you were paid mostly in goods?-Often, when I had a little time, I made small shawls for myself; and when travelling merchants came to town, they would take my shawls and sell them for me for a little money.
3431. Did you do that because it was not the custom to give money for such things at the merchants' shops?-It was not the usual thing always to give money at the merchants shops. If they had given it, I might not have given my shawls to these travelling merchants,
3432. If you had got money from the merchants shops, you would have been as ready to sell your shawls to them as to these strangers?-Yes; but I sold some haps to Mr. Linklater, and got much the same from him as I got from them.
3433., Only you got it in goods?-Yes; but if had sought a little money, I would have got it.
3434. What was the price of the hap-shawls which you made?-I have got as high as 3s. and 4s. for them. I don't make the fine knitting.
3435. Do you ever make hose or stockings?-Yes.