Nearly one-half of the 43,000 operatives who were employed at that time in the woollen trade of this country were weaving in hand-looms. So also one-fifth of the 79,000 persons employed in the worsted trade.

E. Roscoe’s notes in the English Illustrated Magazine, May, 1884.

Bevan’s Guide to English Industries.

Thorold Rogers, The Economic Interpretation of History.

Poverty: a Study of Town Life, London (Macmillan), 1901.

[See Table 7]

Mutual Aid: a Factor of Evolution. London (Heinemann), 1902.

See Baudrillart’s Les Populations agricoles de la France: Normandie.

Le Coton: son regime, ses problemes. Paris, 1863, p. 170.

Les Populations agricoles de, la France: Normandie.