Arts, Society of, inability to assist Crompton, 153 Ashley, W. J., Sir, _Economic History_, 4_n._; _Economic Organisation of England_, 37 Ashton, smallware weavers’ combine at, 144 Ashworth, H., cotton-spinner and author, 161 Augsburg, fustians of, xxii. Aulnager, seal of counterfeited, 4; deputy-aulnagers appointed, 4. See Lennox Axon, W. E. A., _Manchester a Hundred Years Ago_, 26 B Baines, _History of Cotton Manufacture_, xxi., 2_n._, 3_n._, 12, 16_n._, 22_n._, 24_n._, 29_n._, 31_n._, 63_n._, 77_n._, 78_n._, 93-94, 97, 98_n._, 107, 110, 111_n._, 112, 117_n._, 124_n._, 125_n._, 130_n._, 132_n._; _Lancashire and Cheshire_, 125_n._ Baker, improved and enlarged mule, 123 Banks, _Manchester Man_, 127 Barkstead, J., connected with silk and copper industries, 16-17, 18_n._; applied for patent, for silk manufacture and calicoes, 17, 18; had no influence on development of cotton industry, 18, 19 Barton, H. and J., & Co., 170 Bastable, _Public Finance_, 63_n._ Bateman, J., 172 Bays, 6, 7_n._ Belfast, numbers employed in 1800 in cotton industry at, 131 Belper, Arkwright’s factory at, 100 Bigwood, _Cotton_, 162_n._ Billy, combination of mule and jenny for making rovings, 123-124, 181_n._; premium to inventor of, 123-124 Birkacre, Arkwright’s factory at, 100; factories attacked, 82, 92 Birley, R., 170 Blackburn. See Petitions Bolton, see Cottons, Fustians, Petitions, Crompton; market, 3, 27, 37; sixteenth-century manufacture of cottons and coarse yarns, 3; prosecution club, 159 and _n._; public subscription to relieve distress, 1862, 161; population in 1773, 161; centre of fine cotton spinning, 162; centre of fustian manufacture, 15, 27, 56 Bourne, D., patented carding-machine, 77 Bridgewater cloth, 6 Bridgnorth, Society of Travelling Scotchmen of, 65 Bristol, food riots in, 42 Brown, J., took lead in second petition on Crompton’s behalf, 159; _Basis of Mr. Samuel Crompton’s Claims_, 78_n._, 116_n._, 152_n._, 153_n._, 157_n._, 159_n._, 172_n._ Brussels, gilds of journeymen at, xxiii. Burleigh, Lord, xxvii.-xxviii. Burnley, woollen manufacturers support Manchester Act (1736), 24 C Calicoes, see Acts of Parliament; plain imported, 19; manufacture established by new machinery, 91-92, 128; made in Arkwright’s factory at Derby, 100 Calico-printing, early development in London and Lancashire, 22_n._ Camden, _Britannia_, 7_n._ Canals, 62, 71 Cannan, see M‘Connel; emigrated from Kirkcudbright and became cotton-machine maker, 127-128 Carding, see Arkwright, Bourne, Paul; mechanical improvements in, 76-77, 110; cylinder carding-engine, 110 Carriers displace pack-horses, 62. See Manchester Case, G., 172 Champagne fairs, xxii.