[120] 39 and 40 George III. c. 60; see, for all this, _The Town Labourer, 1760-1832_, by J. L. and B. Hammond, 1917, ch. vii. A case in which an attempt to put the arbitration clauses in force was baulked by the employers was mentioned to the Committee on Artisans and Machinery, 1824, p. 603. [121] _Combinations of Workmen: Substance of the Speech of Francis Jeffrey at the Dinner to Joseph Hume, M.P., at Edinburgh, November 18, 1825_ (Edinburgh, 1825). [122] _Sheffield Iris_, March 23, 1814. [123] Place MSS. 27798--7. The Act of 1800 was scathingly denounced by Cobbett in the _Political Register_, August 30, 1823. [124] This is a constant subject of complaint by other employers. [125] Introduction to the London Scale of Prices (in London Society of Compositors’ volume). [126] House of Commons Return, No. 135, of 1834. [127] Advertisements in _Nottingham Journal_, 1794-1810. [128] _Considerations addressed to the Journeymen Calico-Printers by one of their Masters_ (Manchester, 1815); see also the Report of House of Commons Committee on the Case of the Calico-Printers, 1806. [129] Evidence before Committee on Artisans and Machinery, 1824, as summarised in the _Report on Trade Societies_ (1860) of the Social Science Association: see also _A Digest of the Evidence before the Committee on Artizans and Machinery_, by George White, 1824. [130] _The Edinburgh Book of Prices for Manufacturing Cabinet Work_ (Edinburgh, 1805, 126 pp.), “as mutually agreed upon by the Masters and Journeymen.” In 1825 the journeymen prepared a _Supplement_, which, after the masters had concurred in it, was published by the men (Edinburgh, 1825). Both these are in the Goldsmiths’ Library at the University of London. [131] _A Few Remarks on the State of the Laws at present in Existence for regulating Masters and Workpeople_, 1823 (142 pp.), p. 84. Anonymous, but evidently by George White and Gravener Henson. [132] See, for instance, _The Times_ from 17th to 25th of June 1819. [133] _An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Dispute between the Masters and Journeymen Printers exemplified in the Trial at large, with Remarks Thereon_, 1799, a rare pamphlet, in the Goldsmiths’ Library at the University of London. [134] Place MSS. 27798--8; _Times_, November 9, 1810. [135] Report in _Manchester Exchange Herald_, preserved in Place MSS. 27799--156. [136] _Bookfinishers’ Friendly Circular_, 1845-51, pp. 5, 21. [137] Bain’s _Merchant and Craft Gilds of Aberdeen_, p. 261. An earlier combination of 1768 is also mentioned. [138] R. _v._ Hammond and Webb, 2 Esp. 719; see the _Morning Chronicle_ report, preserved in Place MSS. 27799--29. [139] _Star_, November 26, 1799. [140] R. _v._ Connell and others, _Times_, July 10, 1819. [141] R. _v._ Ferguson and Edge, 2 St. 489.