[162]See report in the Manchester Exchange Herald, about 1818, preserved in Place MSS. 27799—156.
[163]See, for instance, the witnesses delegated by the Glasgow and Manchester trades to the Select Committee on Petitions of Artisans, etc., report of June 13, 1811; or the joint action of the Yorkshire and West of England Woollen-workers given in evidence before the Select Committee of 1806. These cases are typical of many others.
[164]Printed handbill signed by thirty-two persons, issued in the summer of 1816, preserved in Place MSS. 27799—141. Place has also preserved the rejoinder of the workmen, which is unsigned, as he notes, for fear of prosecution.
[165]The Stocking Makers’ Monitor, January 1818; A few Remarks on the State of the Law, etc., by White and Henson, p. 88; An Appeal to the Public on the subject of the Framework-Knitters’ Fund, by the Rev. Robert Hall (Leicester, 1819); Cobbett’s Weekly Register, vol. xxxix.; A Reply to the Principal Objections advanced by Cobbett and Others, by the Rev. Robert Hall (Leicester, 1821); Digest of Evidence before the Committee on Artizans and Machinery, by George White, 1824.
[166]Proceedings at a public Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Township of Sheffield, held at the Town Hall, March 15, 1820(Sheffield, 1820, 16 pp.).
[167]Times, August 5, 1819.
[168]Evidence of Sir William Rae, Bart., before Select Committee on Artisans and Machinery, 1824, p. 486.
[169]An admirable biography has now been written, The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854, by Prof. Graham Wallas; first edition, 1898; revised edition, 1918.
[170]Place MSS. 27798—8, 12, etc.; Times, November 9, 1810; The Tailoring Trade, by F. W. Galton, 1896, pp. 110-11.
[171]See the petitions of the Master Manufacturers of Glasgow, Lancashire, and Nottinghamshire, in the Home Office Papers (42—141, 149, 150, 195, etc.).