The early English cotton industry

by George W. Daniels

[194] Raines and Sutton, Life of Humphrey Chetham, pp. 13, 127.

[195] J.H.C., xiv., p. 498; xvi., p. 311; xviii., p. 543; xxiii., pp. 76-78.

[196] Aikin, Manchester, pp. 182-184. Radcliffe, ibid., p. 93.

[197] Manchester Mercury, 29th November 1769; 6th February 1770.

[198] Ante, p. 29, note. Guest, Compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture, p. 12. About this time Manchester traders figure in the petitions against the African and the Hudson Bay Companies.

[199] Radcliffe, ibid., pp. 131-133.

[200] J.H.C., xiv., pp. 498, 504.

[201] Aikin, ibid., pp. 183-184.

[202] Smiles, Lives of the Engineers (1862), i., pp. 178-181. Westerfield, Middlemen in English Business (1915), pp. 313-314.

[203] Defoe, A Tour through Great Britain (1769 edition), iii., p. 126.