Reading, industries and numbers employed in eighteenth century, 28_n._ _Records of Fort St George_, 16_n._ Regulation of industry and commerce, see Acts of Parliament; broke down in seventeenth century, 65-66 _Report on Commerce, Manufacturers and Shipping_ (1833), 22_n._, 134_n._; _Report of Committee on Textile Trades_, 1_n._, 130_n._; _Report of Committee on Cotton Weavers’, etc., Petitions_, 144_n._; _Report of Committee on Emigration, etc._ (1826-1827), 136-137; _Report of Committee on State of Children Employed in Manufactories_, 91_n._, 126_n._, 127_n._; _Report of Tenth International Cotton Congress_, 164 Riders-out, 62 Ridgway, J., evidence before Committee on Crompton’s Petition, 191 Ridgway, T., & Sons, 172 Ring-spinning frame, modern rival of mule, 163; predominates outside U.K., 164; statistics of, 164 Roberts, Lewis, _Treasure of Traffike_, 8, 12, 57_n._ Roberts, Richard, invented satisfactory self-actor mule, 125; perfected power-loom, 125; owned nearly a hundred patents, 125_n._ Robinson, J., 172 Rochdale, small farms held by manufacturers, 136 Roller-spinning. See Arkwright, Paul Roscoe, W., 172 Rothschild, Nathan Meyer, xxx.-xxxi. Roving, methods of, 79; making of rovings became a distinct business, 124 Royton, 144 S Salford, Society of Agriculture, 86 Schoff, _Periplus of Erythrean Sea_, 129_n._ Scotland: Scotch linen yarn imported for fustian manufacture, 9, 58; fancy manufacture, 131, 180; effects of mule on, 180, 188, 190 Scott, Prof. W. R., 18_n._; _Joint Stock Companies_, 12_n._, 16_n._, 18_n._, 19_n._, 66_n._ Shaw, J., attempted to manufacture muslins, 125 Shop-tax, 63-64 Shrewsbury, chapmen’s society, 65 Silk industry, factory system developed earlier than in cotton industry, 98 and _n._; organisation in eighteenth century, 98_n._ See London, Macclesfield Simpson, J., 172 Slack, _Remarks on Cotton_, 58_n._ Smallware, see Checks, Worsted; articles included in, 25; worsted entered into smallware manufacture, 29; weavers’ combination and attack on, 44-45; further dispute in 1781, 53-54 Smiles, S., _Huguenots_, 12_n._; _Industry and Invention_, 98_n._; _Lives of Engineers_, 61_n._, 81_n._, 104_n._ Smith, _Wars Between England and America_, 83_n._ Smollett, _History of England_, 42_n._, 46_n._ Spinning, backwardness in 1735, 74; reward offered for invention of machinery, 78; improvement after 1760, 78. See Roller-spinning Spinning-jenny. See Jenny Spinning-wheel, method of spinning by, 75; Jersey and Brunswick, 75; Saxony, used mainly for flax and wool, 75 Stanley, Colonel, supported Crompton’s appeal to Parliament, 174-175, 178; Lord, supported Crompton’s appeal to Parliament, 174-178, 192, 193; Chairman of Committee on Crompton’s petition, 186, 191