[134] 1 Anne, c. 18.
[135] 9 Anne, c. 32.
[136] 13 Geo. II., c. 8.
[137] 22 Geo. II., c. 27. Professor Ashley has drawn attention to the significance of these Acts (Economic Organisation of England (1914), p. 145). Cf. J.H.C., xvi., p. 311, 1709: “Petition of divers principal traders and dealers in linen manufactures on behalf of themselves and several thousand workmen employed by them in the said trade in Manchester and adjacent parts.”
[138] Ogden, ibid., pp. 74-88.
[139] Ogden, ibid., p. 74. It will be noticed that the statement regarding wool being given to the weavers means cotton-wool ready spun—weft—as is made clear in the next quotation.
[140] Ibid., p. 88.
[141] Guest, Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture (1823), p. 9.
[142] Ibid., p. 11.
[143] Infra, pp. 67-69.