[112] Act of Common Council, November 22, 1750: Hughson’s _London_, p. 422. There is evidence of at least one other club of painters in London dating back to the eighteenth century, the “Original Society of Painters and Glaziers” existing in 1779, which afterwards became the St. Martin’s Society of Painters and Glaziers (_Beehive_, October 24, 1863). [113] This term was used to denote men who had not served a legal apprenticeship. See “Rules and Regulations of the Journeymen Weavers,” reprinted in Appendix No. 10 to Report on Combination Laws, 1825. [114] The case of R. _v._ the Journeymen Tailors of Cambridge in 1721 (8 Mod. 10) is obscurely reported; and it is uncertain under what law the men were convicted. See Wright’s _Law of Criminal Conspiracies and Agreements_, p. 53. [115] See the petitions from Devonshire towns, House of Commons Journals, 1717, vol. xviii. p. 715, which, with others in subsequent years, led to a Select Committee in 1726 (Journals, vol. xx. p. 648, March 31, 1726). [116] See, for instance, the Acts regulating the woollen industry, 12 Geo. I. c. 34 (1725); against embezzlement or fraud by shoemakers, 9 Geo. I. c. 27 (1729); relating to hatters, 22 Geo. II. c. 27 (1749); to silkweavers, 17 Geo. III. c. 55 (1777); and to papermaking, 36 Geo. III. c. 111 (1795). Whitbread declared in the House of Commons that there were in 1800 no fewer than forty such statutes. [117] _A Full and Accurate Report of the Proceedings of the Petitioners, etc._ By One of the Petitioners (London, January 1800, 19 pp.). A rare pamphlet in the Goldsmiths’ Library at the University of London. “It is remarkable,” says Mr. Justice Stephen, “that in the parliamentary history for 1799 and 1800 there is no account of any debate on these Acts, nor are they referred to in the Annual Register for those years” (_History of the Criminal Law_, vol. iii. p. 208). That the measure excited some interest in the textile districts may be inferred from the publication at Leeds of a pamphlet entitled an _Abstract of an Act to prevent Unlawful Combinations among Journeymen to raise Wages, etc._ (Leeds, 1799), which is in the Manchester Public Library (P. 1735). Lord Holland’s speeches against it are said to have been reprinted for distribution in Manchester and Liverpool (Lady Holland’s _Journal_, vol. ii. p. 102). Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have now traced fairly full accounts of the proceedings, elucidating the scanty references in the Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords for 1799-1800 by quotations from the _Parliamentary Register_, the _Senator_, _The Times_, _London Chronicle_, _True Briton_, and _Morning Post_. See _The Town Labourer_, 1917, ch. vii. pp. 111-42; also Cunningham, _Growth, etc._, 1903, pp. 732-7. [118] _Times_, January 7, 1800; _Labour Legislation, Labour Movements, and Labour Leaders_, by George Howell, 1902, p. 23. [119] 39 and 40 George III. c. 90; see _Cunningham_, 1903, p. 634.