[480] On 24th January 1861 (A Chronological History of Bolton to 1875).
[481] Author of The Cotton Trade of Lancashire (1870) and other similar publications.
[482] Account of the ceremony at Hall-i’-th’-Wood.
[483] Chronological History of Bolton, 6th October 1862. See infra, p. 197.
[484] The place was purchased in 1899 by Mr. W. H. Lever (now Lord Leverhulme) and presented by him, with a sum of money for its restoration, to the Corporation of Bolton. It is now open to the public as a museum, and contains, among other interesting things, many Crompton relics.
[485] Aikin, ibid., p. 261.
[486] Bigwood, Cotton (1918), p. 185. The figures refer to 1916.
[487] Dobson, ibid., p. 112.
[488] It was not until the last quarter of the nineteenth century that the self-actor mule entirely displaced the hand-mule (Chapman, ibid., pp. 69-70).
[489] Report of the Tenth International Cotton Congress, pp. 591, 600, 610, 717.