[48] Taylor, The Modern Factory System, p. 69.
[49] Economic History, vol. ii. p. 237.
[50] Defoe, Tour, vol. iii. p. 89.
[51] Report from the Committee on the Woollen Manufacture of England, (1806).
[52] Tour, vol. ii. p. 35.
[53] For an interesting account of the cunning devices of "factors" see Smith's Memoirs of Wool, vol. ii. p. 311, etc.
[54] Cf. Booth, Labour and Life of the People, vol. i. p. 486, etc.
[55] Toynbee, Industrial Revolution, p. 55.
[56] Cunningham, vol. ii. p. 350.
[57] Wealth of Nations, Bk. V., chap. i., part 3.