the
results of an investigation into the industry in the Southern states.
Among official matter the semi-official Bombay and Lancashire cotton
spinning inquiry of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce may be
included. The census of production of the United Kingdom must be
mentioned, and the reports of the International Congresses of Cotton
Spinners and Manufacturers. As to labour, see the reports of the
International Textile Congresses.

The periodical literature is of good quality and much of it is filed
in the Patent Office library. We may notice particularly the _Cotton
Factory Times_; _Textile Journal_; _Textile Manufacturer_; _Textile
Mercury_; _Textile Recorder_; _Textile World Record_ (American); _Der
Leipzige Monatsschrift fur Textilindustrie_; and the French _Textile
Journal_. Shepperson's _Cotton Facts_ is an annual which relates
chiefly, though not entirely, to raw cotton, as does also _Cotton_,
the periodical of the Manchester Cotton Association. For technical
works we may refer here to the well-known treatises of Brooks, Guest,
Marsden, Nasmith and Walmsley, and to Johannsen's ponderous
two-volumed _Handbuch der Baumwollspinnerei, Rohweissweberei und
Fabrikanlagen_. (S. J. C.)

FOOTNOTES:

[1] See the extract from the books of Bolton Abbey, given by Baines
(p. 96) and dated 1298.

[2] Vol. ii. p. 206; Baines, pp. 96-97.

[3] Baines, pp. 93 and 94.

[4] Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, vol. ii.

[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 Indus