[442] Id., p. 56.
[443] H. T. Riley, Memorials of London and London Life, p. 278.
[444] Act of Henry VIII., passed by the Common Council of London, September 27, 1556. See A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, vol. i., ed. by Ed. Arber, introduction, p. xli.
[445] H. de B. Gibbins, Industry in England, p. 341.
[446] Rep., 7 and 8 Vict. c. 101, s. 13.
[447] Macaulay, History of England, vol. i., pp. 389 and 390.
[448] Chamberlayne’s State of England; Petty’s Political Arithmetic, chapter viii.; Dunning’s Plain and Easy Method; Firmin’s Proposition for the Employing of the Poor. “It ought to be observed that Firmin was an eminent philanthropist,” Macaulay observes.
[449] H. de B. Gibbins, Industry in England, p. 388.
[450] The Quarterly Review, vol. lxvii., 1841, pp. 175 and 176.
[451] Alfred, History of the Factory Movement, vol. i., pp. 21, 22.