[116] 5 and 6 Edward VI., c. 7.

[117] S.P.D. Eliz., vol. cxvii. 38, quoted Economic Journal, x., p. 23.

[118] In 1578 the will of James Rillston, of Manchester, “cotton man,” was proved at Chester. Evidently he was in partnership with his cousin, who resided in London, to whom he used to send “packs” of cottons, worth £11, 11s. each. He owned “houses, shoppes, chambers, and warehouses” in Deansgate. One of his sons became a citizen and grocer of London, and married the eldest daughter of Richard Tipping, Linen Draper of Manchester. In the will of Edward Hanson, mercer and grocer of Manchester (1584), the statement appears that “Wm Napton, Wm Woodcocke, and Thos Sawell citizens and grocers of London oweth me for six packs of cottons at 10l. xvs. a pack the sum of 64l. 10s.” Mr. Hanson was Boroughreeve of Manchester in 1569 (Manchester Court Leet Records, vol. i., pp. 203-204, 245).

[119] Lancashire and Cheshire Wills, Chetham Society, New Series, vol. iii.

[120] Lancashire and Cheshire Wills, ibid., N.S., vol. xxviii., pp. 15 et seq. If the sum mentioned were not raised the £500 had to be put out at eight per cent. interest for ten years, and of the annual £40 thus raised, £5 had to be used for repairing the Parish church of Manchester, £5 to be devoted to the support of poor scholars of the free schools in Manchester, Middleton or Rochdale going to either university, £10 to the maintenance of bridges and highways in the Parish of Manchester, £10 to fuel and apparel for the poor of Manchester and Salford, £5 to the poor of Rochdale, and £5 to poor folks next of kin to the testator and to his wife. At the end of the ten years the £500 had to go to his children.

[121] Ibid., p. 35.

[122] Lancashire and Cheshire Wills, ibid., p. 24.

[123] Ibid., p. 15 et seq.

Cloth at Home and Abroad

£s.d. £s.d.
70 pieces of broad
Whites ready dressed
at 45s. a piece 		157100 At Robt. Bowker’s:
46 broad Whites at
46s. 8d. a piece 		10768
38 Graies at 30s. a
piece 		5700 34 Graies at 30s. a
piece 		5100
13 Cottons at 32s. a
piece 		20160 At Roger Nayden’s
Mylne:
1 Black Cotton1100 30 Graies at 30s. a
piece 		4500
12 pieces Rett (?)
canvas 		10100 At Wm. Wardleworth’s
Mylne:
6 Cottons and one
Graie 		10100
At Jno. Heywood’s
Mylne:
7 Graies at 30s. a
piece 		10100
£24760 £22468