The early English cotton industryDaniels, George W. (George William)
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The early English cotton industry
Daniels, George W. (George William)
Cotton machinery; Cotton trade -- Great Britain
Fustians, see Acts, Bolton, Combinations, Cotton Industry, London;
manufacture introduced into Europe, xxi.-xxii.;
into England, 12;
stimulated by decline of German cotton industry;
date of origin of fustian manufacture discussed, 12, 195-196;
development of fustian manufacture, 12, 15, 23, 39;
organisation of manufacture, 37-39;
combined with smallware manufacture, 27-28;
early large-scale production, 23;
numbers employed in 1654, 13;
and in 1735, 23;
commission system in fustian industry, 37-38;
country fustian masters, 39;
centres of manufacture, 9-10, 15, 27, 37, 56;
regulation of manufacture, 11, 195;
wages in fustian trade, 91_n._;
materials used in manufacture, 29, 35;
regarded as woollens, 11;
not made of pure cottons in seventeenth century, 19, 22, 196;
a species of new drapery, 196;
range of goods comprised by, 28;
imported, 2_n._, 196;
exported, 9, 60;
fustian tax, agitation against and repeal, 63 and _n._, 103-104
G
Gaskell, _Artisans and Machinery_, 139_n._;
_Manufacturing Population of England_, 56_n._, 137_n._, 139-144;
dislike of factory system, 139
_Gentleman’s Magazine_, 46_n._
Germany, cotton industry in fourteenth century, 13-14;
effects of Thirty Years’ War on, 14;
effects of decline in English fustian industry, 13-14
Ghent, textile workers of, xxiii.
Gilds, textile, xxii.-xxiii.
Gladstone, J., 172
Glasgow merchants support Manchester Act (1736), 24
Gras, _Early English Customs System_, 2_n._
Greg & Ewart, 170
Guest, _British Cotton Manufacture_, 43, 80_n._, 94, 95_n._, 96_n._,
97_n._, 111_n._, 124_n._;
_Compendious History of Cotton Manufacture_, 38, 39, 60, 73_n._,
74_n._, 96, 108
H
Hakluyt, 3
Halifax, hawkers and pedlars, 64-65
Hammond, _Cotton Industry_, 132_n._
Hammond, J. L. and B., 83_n._
Hand-loom. See Loom
Hansard, 155_n._, 156_n._, 157_n._
Hanseatic League, xxvi.-xxvii.
Hanson, E., Boroughreeve of Manchester, 32_n._
Hargreaves, of Toddington, improved mule, 123
Hargreaves, James, experimented on carding-machines, 78;
invented and patented spinning-jenny, 78, 80, 97, 112, 114;
left Lancashire through opposition, 82, 92-95;
took action for infringement of patent, 93-94;
patent not upheld, 92, 96;
made spinning-jenny practicable, 97;
cotton-mill at Nottingham, 97 and _n._;
estate of, 97_n._;
evidence of widow and son against Arkwright, 107;
alleged inventor of crank and comb device, 78, 107
Hawkers and pedlars, duties on, 63-64
Hayes, inventor of roving-engine, 110
Heathcote, invented lace-making machine, 131 and _n._
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