[244] Dobson, Evolution of the Spinning Machine (1911), p. 28.
[245] Ibid., pp. 33-35. Kennedy, Rise and Progress of the Cotton Trade, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, vol. iii., Second Series (1815), pp. 118-119. Mr. Kennedy states that before the coming of the great inventions the endeavours to find better methods filled the cottages with little improvements, and that the multiplication of instruments was forcing the work out of cottages. “Here,” he says “commences the factory system” (p. 118).
[246] Cole, Some Account of Lewis Paul. Paper read at the meeting of the British Association, 1858. Reproduced by French, Life and Times of Samuel Crompton (1859), App. III. The references are to the pages in French’s book.
[247] For the contrary view, Ure, Cotton Manufacture, i., pp. 237 et seq. The proximity of the date of the patent to that of Kay’s patent and the “Manchester Act” is a fact again worthy of notice.
[248] French, ibid., pp. 269-270. Espinasse, ibid., p. 341.
[249] Ibid., pp. 256, 268.
[250] Baines, ibid., p. 134. Espinasse, ibid., pp. 349-350.
[251] French, ibid., p. 266. Espinasse asserts that it was introduced into at least one Yorkshire workhouse (ibid., p. 355).
[252] French, ibid., p. 269.
[253] Ibid., p. 252.