13. Evidence by Factory Workers of the Condition of Children, 1832 510 14. Women's and Children's Labour in Mines, 1842 516 15. Description of the Condition of Manchester by John Robertson, Surgeon, 1840 519 SECTION II AGRICULTURE AND ENCLOSURE 1. Enclosure Proceedings in the Court of Chancery, 1671 525 2. Advice to the Stewards of Estates, 1731 526 3. Procedure for Enclosure by Private Act, 1766 528 4. Farming in Norfolk, 1771 530 5. A Petition against Enclosure, 1797 531 6. Extracts on Enclosure from the Surveys of the Board of Agriculture, 1798-1809 532 7. Arthur Young's Criticism of Enclosure, 1801 536 8. Enclosure Consolidating Act, 1801 537 9. General Enclosure Act, 1845 541 SECTION III GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF WAGES, CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT, AND PUBLIC HEALTH 1. An Act against Truck, 1701 545 2. A Wages Assessment at a Warwickshire Quarter Sessions, 1738 546 3. Spitalfields Weavers Act, 1773 547 4. A Middlesex Wages Assessment under the Spitalfields Act, 1773 551 5. Agricultural Labourers' Proposals for a Sliding Scale of Wages, 1795 552 6. Debates on Whitbread's Minimum Wage Bill, 1795-6 554 7. Arbitration Act for the Cotton Industry, 1800 568 8. Amendment of the Arbitration Act, 1804 570 9. The First Factory Act, 1802 571 9 A. Minutes of Committee on Children in Factories 573 10. Calico Printers' Petition for Regulation, 1804 573 11. Report on Calico Printers' Petition, 1806 574 12. Cotton Weavers' Petition against the Repeal of 5 Elizabeth, _c._ 4, 1813 576 13. Debates on the Regulation of Apprentices, 1813-14 577 14. Resolutions of the Watchmakers on Apprenticeship, 1817 588 15. Report of the Committee on the Ribbon Weavers, 1818 590 16. The Cotton Factory Act of 1819 591 17. Oastler's First Letter on Yorkshire Slavery, 1830 592 18. Factory Act, 1833 594