_Page 93, continuation of note._--23 Geo. III., c. 21, gave bounties on the export of British printed cottons ranging from 1/2d. to 1-1/2d. per yard and allowed drawback of the excise duty. _Page 99, continuation of note._--Defoe (_Tour through Great Britain_ (1769 edition), iii., pp. 73-74, 104) has references to silk mills at Derby, Stockport and Sheffield. _Page 142, note 3._--It is not likely that the table (_ante_, p. 69) includes all in the country districts who called themselves fustian manufacturers. In the Directory those given in the table were described as having a warehouse in Manchester. _Page 161, continuation of note._--It is stated that in 1842 Crompton’s children received £200 from the Royal Bounty Fund in consideration of their father’s invention (_Bolton: Its Trade and Commerce_ (1919), p. 80). INDEX A Abram, _History of Blackburn_, 97_n._ Acts of Parliament, 1495-1496--indicates import of fustians, 196; 1514--regulates making of cloth, 2, 3 and _n._; 1535--regulates making of cloth, 3; 1543--gives information of Lancashire cloth industry, 30-31; 1551--regulates cloth making and fixes standards, 3, 5_n._, 6; 1552-1553--imposes restrictions on middlemen in wool trade, 31; 1555--Weavers’ Act, main aim and provisions, 3-4; counties excluded from operation, 4 and _n._; repeal of, 4_n._; 1557--modifies Weavers’ Act, 4; 1563--Statute of Apprentices, scope of, 48_n._; appealed to by check-weavers (1758), 48 and _n._; repeal advocated, 51; repealed, 1813-1814, 49_n._; 1566--appoints deputy-aulnagers for Lancashire towns, 4, 5_n._; 1577--restrictive character and effects, 31; 1597--prohibits use of tenters and enforces regulations of size and weight of cloth, 5; indicates English manufacture of fustians, 196; 1606--distinguishes between cloths made of perfect wool and cloths in which flocks, etc., entered, 6-7; ordains alnage of narrow draperies, 195-196; 1700--abolishes previous duties, 7; prohibits import and sale of printed or dyed calicoes from East, 19; failure of, 20; 1702--against payment in truck and embezzlement of materials, 36; made permanent in 1710, 37; extended to other industries, 37; included provisions against combinations, 37; indicates organisation of cotton industry, 37; 1714--calicoes subjected to additional duty, 92-93; 1721--prohibits use of printed or dyed calicoes, 20-22; cloths exempted from operation of, 21; stimulates printing of other fabrics than calico, 22; explained by Manchester Act (1736), 23; 1736--Manchester Act, scope of, 23; support and opposition to, 24; indicates expansion of fustian industry, 39; modified Act of 1721 respecting goods made with linen warp, 93; 1749--Act of 1702 against unlawful combinations extended, 37;