Besides securing full reports in the newspapers, the Trade Union committee conducting the case published at a low price an account of the trial in parts, which has not been preserved. Two other exhaustive reports were issued, and may still be consulted, viz. _Report of the trial of Thomas Hunter and other operative cotton-spinners in Glasgow in 1838_, by Archibald Swinton (Edinburgh, 1838), and _The trial of Thomas Hunter, etc., the Glasgow Cotton-spinners_, by James Marshall (Glasgow, 1838). See also the _Autobiography of Sir Archibald Alison_, 1883; the _Northern Star_ for 1837-8; the _Annual Register_ for 1838, pp. 206-7; and the evidence before the Select Committee on Combinations, 1838. A summary will be found in Howell’s _Labour Legislation, Labour Movements and Labour Leaders_, 1902, pp. 83-4. [296] The five prisoners were pardoned in 1840, in consequence of their exemplary conduct. There is a joint letter by them in the _Trades Journal_ for August, 1840, relating to the subscriptions raised for them by a London committee. [297] _Stonemasons’ Fortnightly Circular_, January 19, 1838. [298] Evidence of W. Darcy, the secretary, second report of 1838 Committee, p. 130. [299] Circular dated March 1, 1838, in Stonemasons’ archives; and _An Address from the London Trades Committee appointed to watch the Parliamentary Inquiry into Combinations_, 1838. [300] George Howell suggests, we are not sure with what authority, that Nassau Senior, whose report on Trade Unionism to the Home Secretary in 1830 we have already described, tendered this to Sir Henry Parnell as the basis of a report by the Committee of 1838, but the proposal was not accepted (_Labour Legislation, Labour Movements and Labour Leaders_, 1902, pp. 83-4). See also _The Irish Labour Movement_, by W. P. Ryan, 1919. [301] A series of subsequent publications has now gone far to fill this gap. _The Chartist Movement_, by R. G. Gammage (republished 1894), may now be supplemented by _The Life of Francis Place_, by Professor Graham Wallas (revised edition, 1918); _Le Chartisme_, 1830-48, by E. Dolléans, 2 vols. (Paris, 1912-13); _The Chartist Movement_, by Mark Hovell, 1918; _The Social and Economic Aspects of the Chartist Movement_, by F. F. Rosenblatt (New York, 1916); _The Decline of the Chartist Movement_, by P. W. Slosson (New York, 1916); _Chartism and the Churches_, by H. V. Faulkner (New York, 1916); _Die Entstehung und die ökonomischen Grundsätze der Chartistenbewegung_, by John Tildsley (Jena, 1898); and especially by the two separate volumes on the _History of British Socialism_, by M. Beer, 1919 and 1920. [302] _Northern Star_, August 20, 1842. [303] _Sheffield Iris_, August 1842. [304] See, for instance, that for October 1839.