The early English cotton industry

by George W. Daniels

[17] Acts of the Privy Council for 1550, p. 19.

[18] R. Ehrenberg, Hamburg und England, chap. iv.

[19] W. Harrison, Description of England, Book III., chap. iv.

[20] W. R. Scott, Joint Stock Companies, 1720, i., p. 88.

[21] Eliz., State Papers Domestic, cci.

[22] W. R. Scott, op. cit., i., chap. v.

[23] Memoirs of Sir T. F. Buxton, ed. by his son, 288-289.

[24] Outside the area mentioned, Glasgow and neighbourhood is the only centre in the United Kingdom where the industry is carried on to a considerable extent (Report of Committee on Textile Trades (1918), pp. 45, 49. (Cd. 9070)).

[25] Published in 1835, p. 96.

[26] Gras, The Early English Customs System (1918), pp. 119, 161, 167, 193, 222, 271, 452, 503, 554-555, 635, 647, 696. In 1507 there is an entry of cotton wolle “spowne.”