[Footnote 415: French, _ibid._, pp. 115-116. Many lists of wages are given in the reports of various parliamentary committees--_e.g._ _Report on Commerce, Manufactures and Shipping_ (1833), p. 699. The following are the prices paid for weaving (on the hand-loom) a 6-4ths, 60 reed cambric, 120 picks in one inch. They were taken in June in each year. In 1795-1796 the length was 20 yards and afterwards 24 yards. A weaver working one piece a week was said to be in full employment. The prices are interesting, not only as showing the decline during the period they cover, but also as the fluctuations indicate the state of trade with remarkable accuracy: +------+-----------+ | Year | Price | +------+-----------+ | |_s._ _d._ | | 1795 | 33 3 | | 1796 | 33 3 | | 1797 | 29 0 | | 1798 | 30 0 | | 1799 | 25 0 | | 1800 | 25 0 | | 1801 | 25 0 | | 1802 | 29 0 | | 1803 | 24 0 | | 1804 | 20 0 | | 1805 | 25 0 | | 1806 | 22 0 | | 1807 | 18 0 | | 1808 | 14 0 | | 1809 | 16 0 | | 1810 | 19 6 | | 1811 | 14 0 | | 1812 | 14 0 | | 1813 | 15 0 | | 1814 | 24 0 | | 1815 | 14 0 | | 1816 | 12 0 | | 1817 | 9 0 | | 1818 | 9 0 | | 1819 | 9 6 | | 1820 | 9 0 | | 1821 | 8 6 | | 1822 | 8 6 | | 1823 | 8 6 | | 1824 | 8 6 | | 1825 | 8 6 | | 1826 | 7 6 | | 1827 | 6 0 | | 1828 | 6 0 | | 1829 | 5 6 | | 1830 | 5 6 | | 1831 | 5 6 | | 1832 | 5 6 | | 1833 | 5 6 | +------+-----------+ ] Reference has already been made to the view that in the Lancashire textile industry, prior to this transition, the operations were performed by more or less independent producers and some evidence was presented to the contrary. But in addition to this view there is another--indeed, between the two there is a close connection--that these producers were at least part-time agriculturalists engaged in cultivating small farms.[416] Mainly this view has been based upon another passage by Radcliffe, and it has also been influenced, no doubt, by Defoe’s picturesque account of a number of small clothiers in Yorkshire.[417] [Footnote 416: Cf. Warner, _Landmarks in English Industrial History_ (1905), pp. 292-294.]