[225] These roads were not cart–roads, but intended for horse and foot passengers, and in Lancashire were paved with narrow blocks of millstone grit, which are still in places to be seen, the centre deeply worn by the tread of the horses.
[226] Another, A.D. 1766.
[227] See Mr. Harrison’s List of Turnpike Roads (Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc., x.).
[228] This invention is by some attributed to John Wyatt, of Birmingham, but recent research gives the credit to Lewis Paul. (See Espinasse’s “Lancashire Worthies.”)
[229] Some authorities assert that Arkwright’s mill in Nottingham was built prior to Hargreaves’.
[230] He did not, as has been frequently stated, die in poverty. He left property worth £4,000.
[231] See Guest’s “Compendious History”; Baines’s “History of Cotton Manufacture”; Espinasse’s “Lancashire Worthies,” etc.
[232] Quarterly Review, No. 213, p. 64.
[233] Kennedy’s “Brief Memoir of Crompton”; see also French’s “The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton,” and Espinasse’s “Lancashire Worthies.”
[234] Article by Mr. W. E. A. Axon, Lanc. and Ches. Ant. Soc., vol. iv.