7. An Act Avoiding divers Foreign Wares made by Handicraftsmen Beyond the Seas, 1562 424 8. An Act Touching Cloth Workers and Cloth Ready Wrought to be Shipped over the Sea, 1566 426 9. Incorporation of a Joint Stock Mining Company, 1568 427 10. An Act for the Increase of Tillage, 1571 428 11. Instructions for an English Factor in Turkey, 1582 431 12. The Advantages of Colonies, 1583 434 13. Lord Burghley to Sir Christopher Hatton on the State of Trade, 1587 438 14. A List of Patents and Monopolies, 1603 440 15. Instructions Touching the Bill for Free Trade, 1604 443 16. The Establishment of a Company to export Dyed and Dressed Cloth in place of the Merchant Adventurers, 1616-17 454 17. Sir Julius Cæsar's proposals for Reviving the Trade in Cloths, 1616 460 18. The Grant of a Monopoly for the Manufacture of Soap, 1623 461 19. The Statute of Monopolies, 1623-4 465 20. An Act for the Free Trade of Welsh Cloths, 1623-4 468 21. The Economic Policy of Strafford in Ireland, 1636 470 22. Revocation of Commissions, Patents and Monopolies Granted by the Crown, 1639 472 23. Ordinance establishing an Excise, 1643 475 PART III: 1660-1846 SECTION I INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS 1. Defoe's account of the West Riding Cloth Industry, 1724 482 2. Defoe's account of the Woollen Trade (_temp._ George II) 483 3. Defoe's account of the Corn Trade (_temp._ George II) 487 4. Defoe's account of the Coal Trade (_temp._ George II) 491 5. A description of Middlemen in the Woollen Industry, 1739 492 6. Report on the Condition of Children in Lancashire Cotton Factories, 1796 495 7. Newcastle Coal Vend, 1771-1830 497 8. The Old Apprenticeship System in the Woollen Industry, 1806 499 9. A Petition of Cotton Weavers, 1807 500 10. Depression of Wages and its Causes in the Cotton Industry, 1812 501 11. Evidence of the Condition of Children in Factories, 1816 502 12. Change in the Cotton Industry and the Introduction of Power Loom Weaving, 1785-1807 505