London Weavers Company oppose Manchester Act (1736), 24; hawkers’ and pedlars’ society, 65_n._; silk industry and silk-throwsters, 98_n._ Loom, hand, 72-73; predecessor of Jacquard loom for weaving draw-boys, 74 and _n._ Lowe, _Present State of England_, 147_n._ Luddite risings in 1811-1812, 154-155 M Macclesfield silk-throwsters, 98_n._ Machine-breaking in 1767 and 1779, 82, 92; causes of, 82-83, 88-90, 95_n._ Macpherson, _Annals of Commerce_, 83_n._, 84_n._, 85_n._, 87, 88_n._ _Manchester Athenæum_, 119; _Court Leet Records_, 26_n._, 32_n._, 58_n._; Directory, 26; analysis of trades from (1772), 67-68; _Mercury_, 42_n._, 43, 44, 45, 46, 52, 53_n._, 54_n._, 59_n._, 60_n._, 62, 63_n._, 82_n._, 84_n._, 85_n._, 87_n._, 93, 94_n._, 95, 101_n._, 102_n._, 103_n._, 104_n._, 105_n._, 106_n._, 110, 119, 136, 143_n._, 147_n._; _Statistical Society, Transactions of_, 144_n._, 151_n._, 155_n._ Manchester, see Acts (1736), Petitions; eminent for woollen cloths or Manchester cottons, 7_n._; Fuller’s account of Manchester cottons, 15; sixteenth-century cloth industry, 30-31; manufactures in 1650 and 1751, 25-26; linen weaving in seventeenth century, 8; lost making of webs and ticks to west of England, 26; made pure cotton goods, 27, 29 and _n._; fustian manufacture, 15, 27, 56; growth of thread manufacture, 28_n._; Dutch machines and mechanics introduced, 27; packs leaving in 1751, 26; reputation in 1543, 30-31; wheat prices, 1753-1758, 42-43; 1759-1765, 84; food riots, 1753 and 1756, 42-44; in 1762, 84; check-weavers turned out in 1758, 47; and tried in 1759, 51; flourishing in 1759, 52; yarn merchants, 58; Manchester goods exported in sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 59; trade of, 58-60; carriers, 63, 71; warehouses of country traders in, 69; crofters in Manchester district, 70; first steam cotton factory, 81; precautions against machine-breaking, 82; Society of Agriculture, 86; Assize of Bread in 1766, 85 and _n._; Arkwright’s factory, 100; cotton manufacturers’ company, 1774-1778, 101_n._; Committees for Protection of Trade, 100-101, 103, 118-119; manufacturers oppose Irish commercial propositions, 104; riots in 1812, 154-155, 157; Society for Prosecution of Felons, 159_n._ Mansfield, Lord, charge to jury regarding combinations, 45-46, 51; advocated repeal of Statute of Apprentices, 51 Mantoux, P., _La Révolution Industrielle_, 96_n._, 97, 100_n._ Marsland, P., 172 Marriott, J., threadmaker, 28_n._ Martineau, H., _History of the Peace_, 83_n._ May, J., _Declaration of the Estate of Clothing_, 6_n._, 10, 11_n._; deputy alnager, 10 M‘Connel, James, eminence in cotton industry, 127; left Kirkcudbright and was apprenticed to Cannan, 127