[49] House of Commons Journals, vol. xix. pp. 416, 424, 481; _The Case of the Master Taylors residing within the Cities of London and Westminster, in relation to the great abuses committed by their journeymen_; _An Abstract of the Master Taylors’ Bill before the Honourable House of Commons, with the Journeymen’s Observation on each clause of the said Bill_; _The Case of the Journeymen Taylors residing in the Cities of London and Westminster_ (all 1720). These and other documents relating to combinations in this trade have now been published in a useful volume (_The Tailoring Trade_, by F. W. Galton, 1896), with an elaborate bibliography. [50] _London_, by David Hughson (1821), pp. 392-3; House of Commons Journals, vol. xxiv. Place MSS. 27799, pp. 4, 5. _The Case of the Journeymen Taylors in and about the Cities of London and Westminster_ (January 7, 1745). [51] _Gentlemen’s Magazine_, 1750, 1768. [52] Place MSS. 27799--10; see _The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854_, by Professor Graham Wallas, 1898; second edition, 1918. There is evidence of very similar organisation in other towns. At Birmingham, for instance, there was a systematically organised strike in 1777 against a reduction of wages, which lasted for some months (Langford’s _Century of Birmingham Life_, pp. 225, etc.; _The Tailoring Trade_, by F. W. Galton, 1896). [53] _A Declaration of the Estate of Clothing now used within this Realme of England_, by John May, Deputy Alnager (1613, 51 pp., in B.M. 712, g. 16), a volume which contains many interesting pamphlets on the woollen manufacture between 1613 and 1753. Already in 1622, a year of depression of trade, we hear of numerous riots and tumults among the weavers of the West of England, notably those of certain Devonshire towns, who paraded the streets demanding work or food (_Quarter Sessions from Elizabeth to Anne_, by A. H. A. Hamilton, 1878, pp. 95-6). But there is as yet no evidence of durable combinations at so early a date. [54] MS. Minutes, Court Book of the Clothworkers’ Company, December 10, 1675; August 16, 1682; _Industrial Organisation of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries_, by George Unwin, 1904, p. 199. [55] _History of Tiverton_, by Martin Dunsford (Exeter, 1790). [56] House of Commons Journals, vol. xviii. p. 715, February 5, 1717. Tiverton and Exeter petition to the same effect. [57] Hughson’s _London_, p. 337. The proclamation was reprinted in _Notes and Queries_, September 21, 1867, from a copy preserved by the Sun Fire Office.