The early English cotton industry

by George W. Daniels

[144] Manchester Reference Library, No. 28266.

[145] Cf. Ogden, ibid., p. 82, also Chapman, Lancashire Cotton Industry, pp. 19-22, where the loom is described.

[146] Smollett, History of England (1818 edition), iv., p. 177.

[147] The prices of cereals in Manchester are given weekly in The Manchester Mercury until 1766 and spasmodically afterwards.

[148] In The Manchester Mercury.

[149] Ibid., 21st June 1757.

[150] Ibid., 11th November, 28th December 1756.

[151] Ibid., 14th and 21st June 1757. Rioting took place in Stockport in September. Ibid., 30th September.

[152] Ibid., 14th December 1756.

[153] Ibid., 8th November 1757.