[10] For the derivation of this curious word, see Notes and Queries, Sixth Series, vol. ii. pp. 365 and 492. 1880.
[11] Vide The Dark Side of Liverpool, by the Rev. R. H. Lundie, Weekly Review, 20th November 1880, p. 1113.
[12] Itinerary, vol. vii. p. 40. Oxford, 1711.
[13] Vide Liverpool Mercury, 11th December 1880.
[14] In Liverpool, strictly speaking, there are no "hands," no troops of workpeople, that is to say, young and old, male and female, equivalent as regards relation to employer to the operatives of Oldham and Stalybridge.
[15] Vide the Autobiography of Wm. Stout, the old Quaker grocer, ironmonger, and general merchant of Lancaster. He mentions receiving cotton from Barbadoes in 1701, and onwards to 1725, when the price advanced "from 10d. to near 2s. 1d. the lb."
[16] That the spinning-jenny was so named after a wife or daughter of one of the inventors is fable. The original wheel was the "jenny," a term corresponding with others well known in Lancashire,—the "peggy" and the "dolly,"—and the new contrivance became the "spinning-jenny."
[17] Inventor of the mariners' compass.
[18] Two Gentlemen, ii. 7.
[19] The original tower remained till 1864, when, being considered insecure, it was taken down, and the existing facsimile erected in its place.