[163] See, for instance, the witnesses delegated by the Glasgow and Manchester trades to the Select Committee on Petitions of Artisans, etc., report of June 13, 1811; or the joint action of the Yorkshire and West of England Woollen-workers given in evidence before the Select Committee of 1806. These cases are typical of many others. [164] Printed handbill signed by thirty-two persons, issued in the summer of 1816, preserved in Place MSS. 27799--141. Place has also preserved the rejoinder of the workmen, which is unsigned, as he notes, for fear of prosecution. [165] _The Stocking Makers’ Monitor_, January 1818; _A few Remarks on the State of the Law, etc._, by White and Henson, p. 88; _An Appeal to the Public on the subject of the Framework-Knitters’ Fund_, by the Rev. Robert Hall (Leicester, 1819); Cobbett’s _Weekly Register_, vol. xxxix.; _A Reply to the Principal Objections advanced by Cobbett and Others_, by the Rev. Robert Hall (Leicester, 1821); _Digest of Evidence before the Committee on Artizans and Machinery_, by George White, 1824. [166] _Proceedings at a public Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Township of Sheffield, held at the Town Hall, March 15, 1820_ (Sheffield, 1820, 16 pp.). [167] _Times_, August 5, 1819. [168] Evidence of Sir William Rae, Bart., before Select Committee on Artisans and Machinery, 1824, p. 486. [169] An admirable biography has now been written, _The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854_, by Prof. Graham Wallas; first edition, 1898; revised edition, 1918. [170] Place MSS. 27798--8, 12, etc.; _Times_, November 9, 1810; _The Tailoring Trade_, by F. W. Galton, 1896, pp. 110-11. [171] See the petitions of the Master Manufacturers of Glasgow, Lancashire, and Nottinghamshire, in the Home Office Papers (42--141, 149, 150, 195, etc.). [172] When Place in 1824 urged the “Committee of Engine Silk-weavers” of Spitalfields to petition for a repeal of the Combination Laws, the meeting “Resolved, that protected as we have been for years under the salutary laws and wisdom of the Legislature, and being completely unapprehensive of any sort of combination on our part, we cannot therefore take any sort of notice of the invitation held out by Mr. Place.” When this resolution was put by the chairman, “an unanimous burst of applause followed, with a multitude of voices exclaiming, ‘The law, cling to the law, it will protect us!’” Place MSS. 27800--52; _Morning Chronicle_, February 9, 1824. [173] The volumes for 1818-19 are in the British Museum. [174] The story has now been well told in _The Life of Francis Place_, by Prof. Graham Wallas, revised edition, 1918, ch. viii.; and in _The Town Labourer_, by J. L. and B. Hammond, 1917, ch. vii. A few other details will be found in _Digest of Evidence before the Committee on Artisans and Machinery_, by George White, 1824, and in _Labour Legislation, Labour Movements, and Labour Leaders_, by G. Howell, 1902, pp. 43-57.