[153]See on all these points the evidence given before the Committee on Artisans and Machinery, 1824; especially that of Richmond.
[154]Letter to the local Major-General, June 15, 1812, in Home Office Papers, 40—1.
[155]Ibid.
[156]The Town Labourer, 1760-1832, by J. L. and B. Hammond, 1917, p. 15. Whether Gravener Henson, the bobbin-net maker of Nottingham, subsequently author of a History of the Framework-Knitters(1831), who had long been a leader of the Framework-knitters, was the “King Lud” under whose orders the machine-breakers often purported to act, is yet unproven (Life of Francis Place, by Prof. Graham Wallas, revised edition, 1918). The Report of the House of Commons Committee on the Framework-knitters’ petitions (1812) affords evidence of the all-pervading misery of the time. For other glimpses of the Luddite organisation, see An Appeal to the Public, containing an account of services rendered during the disturbances in the North of England in the year 1812, by Francis Raynes, 1817 (in Home Office Papers, 40); Report of Proceedings under Commission of Oyer and Terminer, January 2 to 12, 1813, at York, by J. and W. B. Gurney, 1813; Digest of Evidence of Committee on Artizans and Machinery, by George White, 1824 (see p. 36, Richmond’s evidence as to the appeals of the Luddites to the Glasgow cotton-spinners); and Annual Register, 1812.
[157]Evidence of a colliery engineer in the Newcastle district before Committee on Combination Laws, 1825; summarised in Report on Trade Societies, 1860, by Social Science Association. See also A Voice from the Coalmines, 1825; A Candid Appeal to the Coalowners and Viewers of Collieries on the Tyne and Wear, including a copy of the Collier’s Bond, with Animadversions thereon and a series of proposed Amendments, from the Committee of the Colliers’ United Association, 1826 (in Home Office Papers, H.O. 40 (19), with Lord Londonderry’s letter of February 28, 1826); The Miners of Northumberland and Durham, by Richard Fynes, pp. 12-16 (1873); An Earnest Address ... on behalf of the Pitmen, by W. Scott, 1831.
[158]See Appendix to Report of Select Committee on Combinations, 1825.
[159]R. v. Yates and Others, Liverpool Sessions, August 10, 1823. See newspaper report preserved in Place MSS. 27804—154.
[160]The entries in this old cash-book are of some interest:
| May | 29, | 1810 | Paid ye Brushmakers | £15 | 0 | 0 |
| Lent ye Brushmakers | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Paid ye Friziers | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
| June | 26, | 1810 | Paid ye Silversmiths | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Expenses to Pipemakers | 0 | 4 | 10 | |||
| July | 24, | 1810 | Paid ye Braziers | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Paid ye Bookbinders | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Paid ye Curriers | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Aug. | 21, | 1810 | Lent ye Bit and Spurmakers | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Lent ye Scalemakers | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Paid ye Leathergrounders | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Oct. | 26, | 1810 | Paid ye Tinplate Workers | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec. | 11, | 1810 | Lent ye Ropemakers | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| May | 30, | 1811 | Received of Scale Beam-makers | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| June | 25, | 1811 | Expenses with Papermakers | 0 | 12 | 6 |
| July | 20, | 1812 | Lent ye Sadlers | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct. | 12, | 1812 | Paid to Millwrights | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec. | 7, | 1812 | Borrowed from the Musical Instrument-makers | 2 | 0 | 0 |
[161]Home Office Papers, 40—18, March 31, 1823.