[430] Ibid., p. 37.
[431] He gives 1806 as the date of the introduction of power looms. It was about this time that, through the efforts of Horrocks, Johnson and Radcliffe, they became practicable. In February, 1807, Robert Owen wrote to M‘Connel and Kennedy inquiring about “the improvements presently in progress in weaving by power.”
[432] Ibid., pp. 34, 38.
[433] Manufacturing Population, pp. 35, 39.
[434] Ibid., pp. 37-38.
[435] Ibid., pp. 41-42.
[436] Manufacturing Population, pp. 43-45. In Artisans and Machinery, p. 33, he mentions Peel, Strutt and others. Cf. Aikin, ante, p. 136.
[437] In the parish of Oldham “there were a considerable number of weavers who worked on their own account and held at the same time small pieces of land” (Butterworth, History of Oldham, p. 101. Quoted by Chapman, ibid., p. 11).
[438] Gaskell, ibid., p. 17.
[439] See infra, p. 197.