[124] Raines and Sutton, Life of Humphrey Chetham, Chetham Society, N.S., vol. xlix.

[125] Ibid., pp. 8-11.

[126] Ibid., p. 11.

[127] Ibid., pp. 12, 21-22.

[128] Ibid., p. 7. This system of having a branch in Manchester and one in London was apparently customary at the time. It seems to have obtained in the case of William Mosier, mentioned above. Cf. ante, p. 32, note.

[129] Ibid., pp. 14-15.

[130] Raines and Sutton, Life of Humphrey Chetham, pp. 8-15, 123-124. Chetham employed people in Manchester, Ashton, Hollinwood, Eccles and other places.

[131] Ibid., p. 30.

[132] Cf. Unwin, Industrial Organisation in the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, pp. 235-236, where a classification of clothiers is given from a State document, 1615.

[133] J.H.C., xiv., p. 67.