19. Proposals for a Wages Board for Hand-Loom Weavers, 1834 596 20. Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1842 598 21. Debate on Factory Legislation, 1844 599 22. Factory Act, 1844 612 23. Recommendations of the Commission on the Health of Towns, 1845 614 SECTION IV COMBINATIONS OF WORKMEN 1. A Strike of the Journeymen Feltmakers, 1696-99 619 2. A Petition of Master Tailors against Combination among the Journeymen, 1721 622 3. A Dispute in the Northumberland and Durham Coal Industry, 1765 625 4. Sickness and Unemployment Benefit Clubs among the Woolcombers, 1794 626 5. Combination Act, 1799 626 6. Combination Act, 1800 627 7. The Scottish Weavers' Strike, 1812 631 8. The Repeal of the Combination Acts, 1824 633 9. A Prosecution of Strikers under the Common Law of Conspiracy, 1810 635 10. An Act Revising the Law affecting Combinations, 1825 636 11. The Conviction of the Dorchester Labourers, 1834 638 12. An Address of the Working Men's Association to Queen Victoria, 1837 641 13. A Chartist Manifesto on the Sacred Month, 1839 642 14. The Rochdale Pioneers, 1844 643 SECTION V THE RELIEF OF THE POOR 1. Settlement Law, 1662 647 2. Defoe's Pamphlet "Giving Alms no Charity," 1704 649 3. The Workhouse Test Act, 1722 650 4. Gilbert's Act, 1782 652 5. Speenhamland "Act of Parliament," 1795 655 6. The Workhouse System, 1797 657 7. Two Varieties of the Roundsman System of Relief, 1797 660 8. Another Example of the Roundsman System, 1808 660 9. A Report of the Poor Law Commission, 1834 661 10. The Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834 663 11. Outdoor Relief Prohibitory Order, 1844 664 SECTION VI FINANCE AND FOREIGN TRADE 1. Act abolishing Tenure by Knight Service, etc., 1660 670 2. Navigation Act, 1660 670