[15] W. Radcliffe’s Origin of the New System of Manufacturing, p. 59.
[16] The term “fustian” had originally been used to designate certain woollen or worsted goods made at Norwich and in Scotland. A reference to Norwich fustians of as early a date as the 14th century is quoted by Baines.
[17] E. Butterworth’s History of Oldham, p. 101.
[18] Parliamentary Reports, &c. (1826-1827), v. p. 5. See for even later examples Gardner’s evidence to the committee on hand-loom weavers in 1835.
[19] This is illustrated in one of the plates to Guest’s History of the Cotton Manufacture.
[20] Chapman’s Lancashire Cotton Industry, pp. 15 and 16.
[21] Page 167.
[22] Mrs Crompton, wife of Samuel Crompton, we are told, used to employ her son George shortly after he could walk, as a “dolly-peg” to tread the cotton in the soapy water in which it was placed for washing. See French’s Life of Crompton, pp. 58-59 (3rd ed.). Rowbotham in his diary gives two accounts of fires which were caused by carelessness in drying cotton.
[23] On the difference between the two machines see Baines’s History, p. 138 et seq.
[24] Baines p. 183.