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Part I Introduction Early Years of Trade and British Response to Indian Cottons to the late 1600s: Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII; F W Weaver (ed), Somerset Medieval Wills 1531-1558; Jacob Cornelissoon van Neck, True report of the gainefull, prosperous and speedy voyage to Iaua in the East Indies, performed by a fleete of eight ships of Amsterdam; The True and large discourse of the voyage of the whole fleete of ships set forth the 20 of Aprill 1601 ... by the governours and assistants of the East India Company...; A letter written to the right worshipfull the Governours and assistants of the East Indian marchants in London; The Register of Letters etc of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies 1600-1619 edited by Sir George Birdwood and assisted by William Foster; "Letter from the Company to their factors at Bantam, 11th march, 1606/7" beginning "informe us the quantitie..." and ending at the end of that paragraph "diligent in this respect" [extract]; Courante of Newes from the East India; Thomas Mun, The Discourse of Trade, From England unto the East-Indies: Answering to diverse Objections which are usually made against the same. The second impression corrected and amended, by T M; The petition and remonstrance of the Gouernor and Company of Merchants of London, trading to the East Indies; Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, The Humours of the Patient Man, and the Longing Wife; The fann-makers grievance, by the importation of fanns from the East-Indies; A Particular of Goods to be exposed to Saleby the East India Company, in September, 1676; Tradecard: Jacob Stampe Living at ye Sighn of the Callico Printer in Houndsditch...; John Fryer, A New Account of East Indies and Persia in Eight Letters, Letter 1; For Sale at the East-India-House, 10. November 1673; Cargoe, of two ships arrived from India the 19th and 20th of June, 1685. viz, The Henry and William from the Bay of Bengal, and the East-India Merchant, from Surrat...; Some Observations In Relation to the Linen Manufactures of Great Britain and Ireland [Broadside]; J F, The Merchant's Warehouse laid open: Or, The Plain Dealing Linen-Draper; Josiah Child, A treatise: wherein is demonstrated, I. that the East-India trade is the most national of all foreign trades, II. that the clamors, aspersions, and objections made against the present East-India Company, are sinister, selfish, or groundless, III. that since the discovery of the East-Indies, the dominion of the sea depends much upon the wane or increase of that trade, and consequently the security of the liberty, property, and Protestant religion of this kingdom...; Charles Davenant, An Essay on the East-India Trade In a Letter...; Five queries humbly tender'd, relating to the bill for prohibiting the consumption of East-India silks, Bengals and printed callicoes, [by a writer who in other works used the pseudonym 'Prince Butler']; Josiah Child, The Great Honour and Advantage of the East-India Trade to the Kingdom asserted...; The great necessity and advantage of preserving our own manufacturies: being an answer to a pamphlet intitul'd The honour and advantage of the East-India trade, &c. / by N C, a weaver of London; An answer to a late tract, entituled, An essay on the East-India trade; An Answer to the objections made by the Linnen-Drapers against the bill which restrains the wearing East-India wrought silks, &c. in England; humbly submitted to the consideration of the Most Honourable House of Lords; T S [Thomas Smith], Reasons humbly offered for the pasing [sic] a bill for the hindering the home consumption of East-India silks, bengals &c : and an answer to the author of several objections against the said bill, in a book, entitled, an essay on the East-India trade; An Answer to the most material objections that have been raised against restraining the East-India trade with five queries; John Cary, A discourse concerning the East-India-trade: shewing how it is unprofitable to the kingdom of England / being taken out of an essay on trade, written by Mr. John Cary ... in the year 1695, to which are added some observations of Sir Jos Child and of the author of the Essay on ways and means relating to trade, and also a copy of the French King's decree concerning printed callicoes; Prince Butler's Tale: Representing The State of the Wool-Case, or the East-India Case Truly State Part II International Trade and the Politics of Consumption, 1690s-1730: Review of the State of the British Nation, March 8, 1707; Christopher Morris, (ed), The Journeys of Celia Fiennes; William III, 1698-9: An Act for the more effectuall imploying the Poor by incourageing the Manufactures of this Kingdom; The laws and acts made in the eight and ninth sessions of the first parliament of our ... soveraign William ... Holden at Edinburgh the 21 day of May, and thereafter adjourned to the 29 day of October 1700; Flying Post; or the Post Master 9 April 1698; London Post with Intelligence Foreign and Domestick June 12, 1702; Post Man and the Historical Account, June 19, 1707; Supplement, January 18, 1710; Daily Courant, November 27, 1710; Tatler, January 2, 1711; Daily Courant, April 12, 1717; Post Boy, June 7, 1720; Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace ... for the City of London and ...the County of Middlesex,held at ... the Old Bailey; December 1684, [Thomas Plasto's shop robbed by John Cooper, including fustian and "a considerable parcel of dyed Calico"]; October 1685, [Richard Loe robbed of 36 Yds of calico in Whitechapel]; June 1688, [George Kirby robbed by his journeyman of 46 yds calico among other things taken from the shop]; October 1688, [Thomas Burgan robbed by three people, including fustian & muslin]; January 1700, [Cavendish Weeden, Esq., robbed of goods including a "2 Callico Mantua Gowns"]; August 1700, [Gabriel Baily, pipe-maker, robbed of his clothes, including a muslin neckcloth]; January 1715 [a dustman had his fustian coat stolen while he worked]; May 1715, [William Casman, sailor, was trying to smuggle calico into England and it was stolen by a confederate]; May 1717, [William Austin had stolen 11 yds of calico from his shop by pretended customers, Martha Sutton and John Webb]; 1720, [Mary Portress's servant, Elizabeth Stoakes, stole among other things a calico gown and petticoat]; December 1721, [Sir Edward Lawrence robbed of goods including 16 yds of fustian]; July 1722, [Hannah Hodges, an ordinary working woman, saw her calico gown and petticoat torn up by her female drinking companion]; The case of several thousand poor of the wooll manufacture, ruined by the printing, staining and dying of linnens in England, and other parts of his Majesty's dominions (and that chiefly by French-men) for outside garments, being highly injurious to the labour of the poor, and destructive to the wooll manufacture of Englan, Humbly addressed to the Honourable House of Commons; Pride's exchange broke up: or Indian calicoes and silks expos'd, by R L, Gent; Daily Courant, 22 April 1710; Reasons humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, by the Callicoe-Printers, against the duty intended to be laid on Printed Callicoes and Linnens; A brief state of the East India trade, as it relates to the other branches of the British Commerce; The Case of the Weavers of the City of London and Parts Adjascent, Humbly represented to the Honourable the House of Commons; Stuff Makers and others of Bristol, for 6 Apr 1720; Clothiers of County Gloucester, for, 25 Apr 1720; Manufacturers of and Dealers in Cotton Wool in Manchester, for, 25 Feb 1721; Master and others of Company of Clothiers of City of Worcester, for, 28 Feb 1721; Linen Drapers and others of London, against, 5 Apr 1720; Calico Printers of London against, 5 Apr 1720; Mayor and others of Weymouth, against, 11 Apr 1720; Cotton Manufacturers of London, against, 21 Feb 1721; Upholders and Quilt Makers of London against, 21 Feb 1721; Retailers of Calico of London, against, 28 Feb 1721; A True Representation of the manufacture of combing and spinning of Wooll... Humbly offered to the consideration of the British Legislators; An Answer to the Reasons Offered against restraining Printed Calicoes...; Daniel Defoe, The Just Complaint of the Poor Weavers truly represented... And a review of two others lately written on the same side; Daniel Defoe, A Brief State of the Question, between the printed and painted callicoes and the woollen and silk manufacture, as far as it relates to the wearing and using of printed and painted callicoes in Great-Britain; The naked truth; A Further Examination of the Weavers Pretences Further Examination of the Weavers Pretences, Being a particular answer to a late pamphlet of theirs, entituled, The Just Complaints, &c;John Asgill, A brief answer to a brief state of the question, between the printed and apinted callicoes, and the woollen and silk manufactures, by Mr Asgill; The Case of the Linen-Drapers, and other Dealers in Printed Callicoes and Linen;The Just Complaints of the poor Weavers truly represented...; Claudius Rey, The Weavers True Case; or, the Wearing of printed callicoes and linnen destructive to the woollen and silk manufacturies; Claudius Rey, Observations on Mr Asgill's Brief answer to a brief state of the question between the printed and painted callicoes, &c.; The Case of the Italian Merchant;Reasons for adding a clause to the Bill for preserving and encouraging the Woollen and Silk manufactures, etc. to except Callicoe manufactured in Great Britain, out of the intended prohibition, ... offer'd to the ... House of Commons;Some CONSIDERATIONS relating to the desired Prohibition of wearing printed CALLICOES, by a Person wholly disinterested otherwise, then for the good of his country; The Weavers answer to a printed paper, entituled the Case of the retailers of East-India goods; The Case of the Quilt-Makers; The Case of the Printed Linnens of North Britain; The Farther CASE of the Woollen and Silk Manufacturers; The Female Manufacturers Complaints: Being the Humble Petition of Dorothy Distaff...; William Lee, (ed), Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 to 1729; Mist's Journal 27 June 1719 "Weavers' Riots against Calicoes"; Mist's Journal 15 August 1719 "The Women's Complaint against the Weavers"; Jenny Distaff, The linen spinster, in defence of the linen manufactures, &c. to be continued as Mrs. Rebecca Woollpack gives occasion; Weekly Journal 13 June 1719; 20 June 1719; 27 June 1719; 4 July 1719; 18 July 1719; 1 August 1719; 8 August 1719; 22 August 1719; Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, Saturday, 11 July 1719; 18 July 1719; 22 August 1719; 12 September 1719 Issue 41; 7 May 1720, Issue 75; 14 May 1719, Issue 76; Weekly Packet, 8 August 1719; 5 September 1719; 14 November 1719 Issue 385; Weekly Medley or the Gentleman's Recreation, 19 December 1719; Original Weekly Journal, 2 January 1720; Daily Post, 24 May 1720; 7 June 1720, Issue 4817; Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 22 August 1719; The statutes at large, from the first year of the reign of King George the First, to the ninth year of the ... Volume the fifth; "Cap VII, An Act to preserve and encourage the Woollen and Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom, and for more effectual employing the Poor, by prohibiting the Use and Wear of all printed, painted, stained or dyed Callicoes in Apparel, Houshold Stuff, Furniture, or otherwise, after the twenty-fifth Day of December one thousand seven hundred and twenty-two (except as therein is excepted)."; Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post November 24, 1722; Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, December 1, 1722; and Issue 214 & 8 December 1722, Issue 215; Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, December 1, 1722; and Issue 214 & 8 December 1722, Issue 215; Daily Journal 30 April 1724; Parker's Penny Post, 6 April 1736, issue 146 Part III Establishing a British Cotton Trade, c1730-1815 British Journal, 16 May 1724; Daily Post, 1 May 1725; London Journal, 19 March 1726; Daily Post, 27 November 1728; Daily Post-Boy, 3 February 1729; Country Journal or The Craftsman, 19 Feb 1732; Daily Post, 1 May 1725; London Journal, 19 March 1726; Daily Post, 3 February 1729; Daily Post-Boy, 3 February 1729; Echo or Edinburgh Weekly Journal, 20 October 1731; Universal Spectator or Weekly Journal, 16 September 1732; London Gazette, 2 January 1733; Daily Courant, 15 February 1732; Daily Gazetteer, 22 July 1735; Reads Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 17 April 1736; Daily Gazetteer, 9 February 1737; Country Journal or The Craftsman, 12 February 1737; London Evening Post, 6 April 1736, 17 April 1736; Daily Gazetteer, 19 April 1736; Country Journal or The Craftsman, 8 May 1736; London Daily Post and General Advertiser, 19 May 1736; London Evening Post, 3 June 1736, 26 June 1736; Daily Post, 1 July 1736; Daily Gazetteer, 21 February 1737; Daily Post, 2 November 1738, 26 February 1739; London Evening Post, 14 July 1741 [all transcribed]; Port of Harwich, Collector to Board, July 1713-1728 [transcribed]; The Case of the Importers of Cotton Wool and of the Manufacturers thereof into Fustian; Journals of the House of Commons, Petitions against the manufacture and use of fustians & discussion of same by those in trade; Journals of the House of Commons [26 Feb] 1735, "A Petition of the Merchants and Traders in the Town of Liverpoole..."; "A Petition of the Traders ... the Town of Wakefield", [3 March 1735]; "A Petition of the Gentlemen, Land-owners, and Occupiers of Land, Wool-staplers..." and "Linen-drapers of the City of London", [9 March 1735]; "A Petition of the Masters, Wardens ... within the City of Bristol" and "Woolcombers, or Makers of Worsted Yarn ... County of Suffolk" [16 March 1735]; "excepted, so far as relates to Goods made of Linen Yarn, and Cotton Wool, manufactured in Great Britain." [24 March 1735]; "Mr Speaker, The Lords have agreed to the Bill,"; Petitions concerning the woollen manufacture and "the prevailing Use and Wear of printed, painted, stained and dyed Linens and Cottons"; Read's Weekly Journal Or British Gazetteer, April 17, 1736; Beekman Papers, New York Historical Society, selected ms: from Mr Thomas Maltby & Son, London, to Mr James Beekman, New York, 2 April 1753 [ invoice & letter], from Pomerory & Streatfield, London, to Mr James Beekman, New York, 28 Feb 1754 [invoice], from Pomeroy & Streatfield, London, to Mr James Beekman, New York, 8 March 1755 [invoice], from Pomeroy & Streatfield, London to Mr James Beekman, New York, 13 April 1757 [invoice], from Pomeroy & Streatfield, London, to Mr James Beekman, 20 May 1758 [invoice], from Robert & Nathan Hyde, Manchester, 12 March 1767 [invoice], from Robert & Nathan Hyde, Manchester, to Mr James Beekman, 10 Jan 1768 [invoice], from Robert & Nathan Hyde, Manchester, to Mr James Beekman, 20 March 1771 [invoice & letter]; R Campbell, The London tradesman, Being an historical account of all the trades, professions, arts, ... now practised in ... London and Westminster...; Thomas Mortimer, The Universal Director: or, the Nobleman and Gentleman's True Guide to the Masters and Professors ... Mechanic Arts, Manufactures and Trades ...; James Ogden, A Description of Manchester ... by a Native of the Town; Records of Fort St George, Despatches to England 1694-1751[extracts]; Reports from the Committees of the House of Commons (1737-1765); Report from the Committee, Appointed to Examine and State to the House, the matters of fact in the several Petitions of the Manufacturers of, and Traders and Dealers in, the Linen Manufactury: together with an Appendix; Reports relating to chequered and striped Linens; Journals of the House of Commons, "And it appeared by the Evidence of Mr. Jedidiah Strutt..."; William Bailey, Bailey's Northern directory, or, merchant's and tradesman's useful companion, for the year 1781; Manchester Mercury and Harrop's General Advertiser, Tuesday, 16 November 1779, "A CAUTION, TO THE WEARERS and SELLERS of East-India Handkerchiefs, [typescript]; Reports from the Committees of the House of Commons, Reports from the committee on illicit practices used in defrauding the revenue; First Report from the Committee appointed to enquire into the Illicit Practices used in defrauding the Revenue; 'A Fashionable Toast', Satire on lady's dress; 'St Giles's Beauty'; Daniel Defoe, The London Ladies Dressing-Room: or, The Shopkeepers Wives Inventory, a satyr, written by the author of the True-born Englishman; William Lee, (ed), Daniel Defoe: His Life, and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 to 1729; Mist's Journal, 7 February 1719 "Individual Foibles National Benefits"; Mus Rusticus [Broadside]; A Trip Through London: Containing Observations on Men and Things; The Monthly Chronicle, September 1729; Gentleman's Magazine, January 1734 and January 1739; Daily Gazetteer, 29 October 1735, Advertisement of stolen textiles and garments from the house of Mr Isaac Franks, Epsom, Surrey, including a notable variety of Indian cotton clothes and sheets; Proceedings on the King's Commission of the Peace ... for the City of London and ...the County of Middlesex; held at ... the Old Bailey, May 1732; July 1743, [William Hallet, an upholsterer, took chintz curtains & a 7 piece set of chintz hangings to be cleaned by John Jenkins, dyer, where they were stolen]; January 1744, [George Hodges, draper, was robbed by his porter of a large quantity of cloth including 48 yds of printed cotton]; October 1749, [Thomas Leach, leather-seller, testified to the loss of a number of items including a "child's cotton gown, not quite finish'd" and his wife's cotton gown]; July 1784, [Mary Davis, daughter of John Davis, painter, had a quantity of muslin items stolen from her residence in Red Lion St, Holborn]; September 1784, [stable hand at an inn had clothes stolen including corduroy breeches]; September 1784, [household goods stolen including a "cotton counterpane"]; February 1785 [ Mary Taylor, "servant to a milk-woman" had her box stolen containing most of her clothes, such as "one dark coloured cotton gown"]; February 1790, [William Vickery, driver of the Dover diligence, had clothes stolen including cotton stockings and a muslin handkerchief]; September 1785, [Nathaniel Oliver, dyer, his wife's & children's goods stolen]; January 1797, [Mary Pierce, widow, had a range of cotton and other clothing stolen]; January 1798, [Martha Harris, daughter of Edward Harris, an army tailor, her good stolen]; April 1800, [Henry Robinson, music shopkeeper, his shirts stolen]; September 1800, [Mr Robert Sowerby, slop shopkeeper, had 14 cotton shirts "not made up" stolen]; Lady's Magazine: or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, December 1772; February 1773, "Do Madame, pray..."; The London Magazine or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, 1783, "every servant girl, has her cotton gowns, and her cotton stockings"; The Magazine a la Mode, or Fashionable Miscellany; Sherborne Mercury; or The Weekly Magazine, 12 July 1773, p. 110 "The Dress of the Month as established at St James's, and in Tavistock Street."; The Weekly Museum, or, instructive entertainer, Containing a collection of selected pieces... , "Dress of the Month as established at St James's, and in Tavistock Street"; John Adams, Woman, Sketches of the history, genius, disposition accomplishments, employments, customs and importance of the fair sex, ...; "THE COXCOMB AND THE FOP: A Morning Scene in High Life" La Belle Assemblee, or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine; "Fustian Jackets" Punch, or the London Charivari; Tradecard: Allin's Cheap Clothes Warehouse, Birmingham; Tradecard: Cotes's Manchester Warehouse; Tradecard: Greenfield's Warehouse, London; Tradecard: KING, Linen-Draper, Mercer and Hosier, Beech-street, Barbican; Museum Rusticum et Commerciale or Select Papers, "A Letter to the Editor Recommending the Establishment of a New Manufacture in England"; The statutes at large, From the seventh year of the reign of King George the Third, to the eighteenth ... An Act for ascertaining the Duty on printed, painted, stained, or died Stuffs, wholly made of Cotton, and manufactured in Great Britain, and for allowing the Use and Wear thereof, under certain Regulations; Day book 'G' of a Manchester firm in the textile industry..., 1773-9 [extracts]; George Unwin, Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights: The Industrial Revolution at Stockport and Marple; Hannah Glasse, The Servant's Directory, or house-keeper's companion..., "To Wash Gauzes, Book-Muslin, and Blown Laces", "To Wash Cambricks, Muslins, and Common Laces" and "To Wash Thread and Cotton Stockings"; Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal Knowledge. ... To this edition are added, some plain and ... ["The Laundry-Maid"]; Robertson, Hannah, The young ladies school of arts, Containing a great variety of practical receipts,... "To Wash Printed Callicoes, Cotton and Linen"; George Fettes, Pawnbroker's Pledge Book, 1777-1778 [extracts]; Morgan Draper's Ledger [extracts]; Thomas Trotter, Medicina nautica: an essay on the diseases of seamen; Robert Bath, An essay on the medical character, with a view to define it: to which are subjoined, medical commentaries and observations, ...; Tim Bobbin, Dialect of South Lancashire, or, Tim Bobbin's Tummus and Meary: with his rhymes and an enlarged and amended glossary of words and phrases...; Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 1 August 1767 "Tayloring, Ward and Co Taylors, at No 5, in Prujean-square, in the Old-Bailey"; Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 15 June 1769, "SALES by CANDLE"; Middlesex Journal or Chronicle of Liberty, 20 March 1770, "THOMAS SMITH, AT HIS BEDDING, CARPET, BLANKET and UPHOLSTERY WAREHOUSE"; Public Ledger, 7 March 1774, "JAMES ADLARD, Taylor and Habit-maker; Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 19 January 1776, "TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr Christie"; Manchester Mercury and Harrop's General Advertiser, 16 November 1779, "This AFTERNOON Will be Sold in BERRY's Auction-Room"; Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 28 February 1784, "For Sale by Auction"; Felix Farley's Bristol Journal,14 August 1784, "WORTHY THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC"; Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 24 March 1787, "LINEN-DRAPERY, On the most advantageous Terms"; Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, 14 May 1787, "THREAD and COTTON MANUFACTORY, also MUSLIN and TIFFANY WAREHOUSE"; Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 5 January 1788, "York Wilson's Wholesale and Retail, New Ready-Made Cloaths Warehouse"; World, 5 November 1791, "FASHIONABLE WINTER ARTICLES, PATTEN, Haberdasher"; Oracle and Public Advertiser, 16 April 1795, "AT HAM"S CHEAP LINEN DRAPERY WAREHOUSE"; Oracle and Public Advertiser, 16 January 1797, "At CHRISTIAN's WAREHOUSES"; Morning Chronicle, 13 January 1798, "CHEAP DAYS - At the STAR"; Caledonian Mercury,17 May 1800 "SUMMER FASHIONS"; Morning Chronicle, 6 October 1800, "PANTALOONS, DRAWERS, UNDER WAISTCOATS"; Trewman's Exeter Flying Post,16 October 1800, T DREW, Linen-draper"; Morning Chronicle, 11 December 1800, "READY-MADE LINEN in all its Branches"; E Johnson's British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, 14 June 1801, "NOW ON SALE PRINTED CAMBRICKS AND CALLICOES FOR SPRING AND SUMMER DRESSES"; The Newcastle Courant etc, 15 March 1806, "J P HALBERT begs Leave to inform his Friends"; The Ipswich Journal, 11 October 1806, "WILLIAM BRAGGS, MELTON, Dealer in New and Second-Hand CLOATHS, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE"; The Ipswich Journal, 13 May 1809, "MRS. PRITTY respectfully acquaints the Ladies" and "JNO HATCHER, Jun Grocer and Draper"; Report from the Committee appointed to enquire into the present state of the Linen Trade, in Great Britain and Ireland, Together with an Appendix referred to in the said Report, "An Account of the Quantities of British and Irish Cottons and Linens, printed, painted, or stained, which have been exported from England, for Ten Years preceding January 1772"; Journals of the House of Commons, 17 February 1779, "Mr. Chaytor reported from the Committee"; Journals of the House of Commons, 27 April 1780, "A Petition of the Cotton Spinners"; Report From The Committee To Whom The Petition of the Cotton Spinners, and others, in and adjoining to the County of Lancaster, And Also The Petition of John Hilton, Agent for the Cotton Manufacturers of the Town and Neighbourhood of Manchester, on Behalf of the said Manufacturers,Were Referred, 27 June 1780; [Dorning Ramsbtham], Thoughts on the Use of Machines in the Cotton Manufacture, Addressed to the Working People in that Manufacture and to the Poor in General, By a Friend of the Poor; The Aberdeen magazine, literary chronicle, and review, "Extracts, from Papers circulated on the part of the British Manufacturers in Cotton, relative to the present Competition between the Callico and Muslin Manufactures of GREAT BRITAIN, and the same Species of Goods imported from the East Indies: dated London, April, 1788"; Journals of the House of Commons, "A Petition of the Linen, Cotton, and Silk Manufacturers, and Callico Printers, in the City of Glasgow, and Neighbourhood"; Thomas Bentley, Letters on the utility and policy of employing machines to shorten labour, occasioned by the late disturbances in Lancashire...;At a meeting of the principal master callico and fustian printers, resident in the county of Lancaster, held at the Bridgwater Arms, in ...; House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Bill for Preserving of Health and Morals of Apprentices Employed in Cotton Mills and Factories; Gentleman's Magazine, Description of the New Lanark spinning mill run by Robert Owen; Richard Guest, A compendious History of the Cotton Manufacture; Ralph Mather, An Impartial Representation of the Case of the Poor Cotton Spinners in Lancashire; Cotton, Linen and Fustian Association ... at Oldham ... County of Lancaster, 1782, Whitehall Evening Post, 31 October 1782 & Saturday, 9 November 1782; R Sadler, The Discarded Spinster, or a Plea for the Poor, on the impolicy of Spinning Jennies, A Poem; William Radcliffe, Origin of the New System of Manufacture Commonly Called Power-Loom Weaving, Fully Explained in a Narrative Containing William Radcliffe's Stuggles through Life Written by Himself; George White, Memoir of Samuel Slater The Father of American Manufactures Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America; William Cooke Taylor, The hand book of silk, cotton, and woollen manufactures;chapter 6 'Special History of the Cotton Manufacture", chapter 7, "Early History of the Cotton Manufacture in England", chapter 8 "Era of Invention, Application of Mechanical Power to Spinning and Weaving"; Free trade, or, An inquiry into the pretensions of the directors of the East India company, to the exclusive trade of the Indian and China seas

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