[5] State Papers, Domestic, lix. 5. See W. H. Price, Quar. Jour. Econ., vol. xx.
[6] London Guildhall Library, vol. Beta, Petitions and Parliamentary Matters (1620-1621), No. 16 (old No. 25).
[7] The act referred to is 33 Henry VIII. c. xv., already mentioned.
[8] Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce (1903), vol. ii. p. 623.
[9] Original edition, pp. 32, 33.
[10] Aikin’s Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty Miles round Manchester, p. 154.
[11] Tour, vol. iii. p. 219.
[12] For instance Radcliffe p. 61. Ogden (author of A Description of Manchester, &c., published in 1783), if Aikin’s “accurate and well-informed enquirer” by Ogden, says that the period of rapid extension of the cotton industry began about 1770. See also Butterworth’s History of Oldham and the passage quoted below in the text.
[13] Account of Society for Promotion of Industry in Lindsey (1789), Brit. Mus. 103, L. 56. Quoted from Cunningham’s English Industry and Commerce, vol. ii. p. 452, n. ed., 1892.
[14] In 1838 the only other county with more than 1000 was Gloucester with 1500. 217,000 of the 219,100 operatives in England and Wales were employed in the counties enumerated. Of the 2000 operatives whose location is not given, about 1000 worked in Flintshire.