Some idea of the extent to which Anthony Mosley was engaged in the cloth trade may be gathered from the facts that at home he had cloth to the value of £247, and abroad (evidently in the hands of traders and finishers) to the value of £224.[123] He had debts owing to him to the extent of nearly £1300, of which sum £850 had been put into stock “with Francis Locker by indentures.” To what extent the other portion was owing for cloth is not clear, but the fact that a debt was owing by a mercer suggests that some of it was. [Footnote 123: _Ibid._, p. 15 _et seq._ CLOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD £ _s._ _d._ £ _s._ _d._ 70 pieces of broad At Robt. Bowker’s: Whites ready dressed 46 broad Whites at at 45s. a piece 157 10 0 46s. 8d. a piece 107 6 8 38 Graies at 30s. a 34 Graies at 30s. a piece 57 0 0 piece. 51 0 0 13 Cottons at 32s. a At Roger Nayden’s piece 20 16 0 Mylne: 1 Black Cotton 1 10 0 30 Graies at 30s. a 12 pieces Rett (?) piece. 45 0 0 canvas 10 10 0 At Wm. Wardleworth’s Mylne: 6 Cottons and one Graie. 10 10 0 At Jno. Heywood’s Mylne: 7 Graies at 30s. a piece. 10 10 0 ------------ ------------ £247 6 0 £224 6 8 ] It is in connection with the Chethams, however, and particularly with Humphrey Chetham, whose life covered the period from 1580 to 1653,[124] that we get the most valuable information concerning the organisation of the cloth industry in the Manchester district in the seventeenth century. Besides Humphrey, three of his brothers were engaged in “Manchester trade.”[125] In 1597 he was apprenticed to Mr. Samuel Tipping, a Manchester linendraper, to whom his eldest brother, James, was also apprenticed, while another brother, George, was apprenticed to Mr. George Tipping, the younger brother of Samuel, who again was a “grosser and linen draper.”[126] About 1605 George and Humphrey Chetham entered into a partnership which was renewed and continued until the death of the former at the end of 1626, though after 1619, rather than to extend their mercantile business, they invested their capital in land.[127] [Footnote 124: Raines and Sutton, _Life of Humphrey Chetham_, Chetham Society, N.S., vol. xlix.] [Footnote 125: _Ibid._, pp. 8-11.] [Footnote 126: _Ibid._, p. 11.] [Footnote 127: _Ibid._, pp. 12, 21-22.]