try 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.

[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.

[25] Baines's _History of the Cotton Manufacture_, p. 86 n.

[26] These figures are quoted from a pamphlet published in 1788
entitled "An Important Crisis in the Calico and Muslin Manufactory in
Great Britain explained." Many of the estimates given in this
pamphlet are worthless, but there seems no reason why the figures
quoted here should not be at least approximately correct.

[27] See article on COTTON-SPINNING MACHINERY.

[28] Hargreaves' claim to this invention has been disputed, but no
satisfactory evidence has been brought forward to disprove his claim.
Hargreaves was a carpenter and weaver of Stand-hill near Blackburn,
and died in 1778.

[29] See Chapman's _Lancashire Cotton Industry_, pp. 59 et seq.

[30] See Baines p. 207.

[31] "Counts" are de