M‘Connel & Kennedy, began business (1791) with capital of £250, 150; made machinery and rovings, 124_n._, 128; size of mules made by, 162; supplied Belfast and Glasgow with fine cotton yarns, 132; correspondence of, reveals industrial situation, 147_n._ See Crompton M‘Hewham, J. and J., 172 Mellor, description of, 136-138; census (1801), details of, 138 Merchant Adventurers’ Company, xxv.-xxvii. Meredith, H. O., _Economic History of England_, 83_n._ Middleton, size of farms in, 136; farms held by weavers, 316 Midgley, T., curator of Chadwick Museum, Bolton. See Bolton, Souvenir of Royal Visit to Milne, invented cotton-roving machine, 103; subscription on behalf of, 103, 119, 120 _Monthly Literary and Scientific Lecturer_, 22_n._; _Monthly Magazine_, 120 Mordaunt, Col., defendant in trial for infringement of Arkwright’s patent, 102 Morris, introduced Paul’s carding-machine into Lancashire, 78 Mosier, W., chapman, 33, 34 Mosley, A., clothier, business and accounts of, xxv., 33; will of, 32 and _n._; Sir N., Lord of Manor of Manchester, 32 Mule, see Billy, Jenny, Crompton; called Hall-o’-th’-Wood wheel, 166, 168, 173, 190-191; description of, 117-118, 162; value to cotton industry, 169-170, 173, 180; corrected defects of Arkwright’s machinery, 117, 179-180; relation to jenny and Arkwright’s machinery, 116, 117, 119, 172-173, 179, 180; produced satisfactory thread for fine work, 116, 118, 124, 128-129, 173, 179-180, 191; produced thread suitable for warps and wefts, 117, 167, 173; produced fine muslin and cambric manufactures, 129, 169, 173, 180, 186-187, 190; partly superseded water-frame, 124, 163, 189; superior to ring-frame for higher qualities of yarn, 164; increasing use, 121 and _n._, 187; increase in size and improvement, 121-123, 125, 126 and _n._, 162-163; present-day mules, 163-164; value of machines, buildings and power in 1812, 191; employment resulting from, 169, 181, 188, 191 Mule, double, superseded single, 125 and _n._; mule, self-actor, not at first satisfactory, 125; improvements of mule culminated in, 163 Mule-spinners, high wages, 122; privations and organisation of, 144 and _n._ Murray, Adam, apprenticed to Cannan on leaving Kirkcudbright, 127 Murray, A. and G., 127, 172. See Mule, Oldknow, Shaw Muslins, Eastern manufacture of, 129; Continental demand for muslin yarns, 131; British manufacture of, 129_n._ N Need, S., in partnership with Arkwright, 98, 103 New Lanark cotton mills erected, xxx., 106, 172. See Owen, Arkwright Northumberland excluded from provisions of Weavers’ Act, 4 Norwich, opposition of woollen manufacturers to printed fustians, 23; export of English, 7 Nottingham, Earl of, 18; lace industry, 131; Luddite risings, 154-155 O