[290] Macpherson, ibid., p. 589.
[291] Ibid., pp. 442-443.
[292] J.H.C., xxxvii., pp. 804, 925-926.
[293] J.H.C., xxxvii., p. 882.
[294] A fustian-weaver was said to be able to earn 1s. to 2s. a day. Fustian-weavers appear always to have been a poorly paid class. Cf. Report on State of Children Employed in Manufactories (1816), p. 99, Evidence of Mr. George Gould: “In the fustian trade I think there never was a period when a good hand could get above thirteen or fourteen shillings.”
[295] An attack was made on the first Robert Peel’s machinery when he lived at Peel Fold near Blackburn. “Mr. Peel was accustomed to say that the destruction of his machinery by the populace was a very fortunate occurrence for him, inasmuch as he was forced thereby to adopt Arkwright’s machinery, which otherwise he never should have done, he having a strong and not unnatural affection for his own inventions” (Wheeler, History of Manchester (1824), p. 519).
[296] Arkwright’s Case, p. 99. The Case is quoted in Arkwright’s Patent Trial, 25th June 1785.
[297] 14 Geo. III., c. 72; also infra, p. 197.
[298] Espinasse, ibid., p. 325.
[299] Baines, ibid., p. 162.