[343] Baines, ibid., pp. 177-179.
[344] Actually the leading counsel against Arkwright in the third trial asserted that the crank and comb device so impressed the jury in the second trial as to gain Arkwright the verdict on that occasion (Trial, 25th June 1785, p. 19).
[345] Guest, History of Cotton Manufacture, pp. 13, 53. The question of the jenny was not dealt with at the trial, of course.
[346] Trial, 25th June 1785, Highs’ evidence.
[347] Ibid., Kay’s evidence.
[348] Trial, 25th June 1785, Highs’ evidence. Evidently Arkwright made a gesture of impatience, and suggested that even if Highs had any claim to the invention, he had not gone forward with it, and, in such a case, another man had the right to do so.
[349] Espinasse, ibid., pp. 447-448.
[350] 5th July 1785.
[351] Baines, ibid., pp. 122-123.
[352] Trial, 25th June 1785, Kay’s evidence.