The next author is sir Richard Steele, who, by means of the affecting story of inkle and Yarico, holds up this trade again to our abhorrence.
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I"
Thomas Clarkson
If you consider me in little, I am with your worships reverence Sir, a Rascal: one that upon the next anger of your Brother, must raise a sconce by the high way, and sell switches; my wife is learning now Sir, to weave inkle.
"The Scornful Lady"
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
In a word, of an own brother to Mr. Thomas inkle.
"Audrey"
Mary Johnston