 ... whereby not only the better sort of men are employed but also the very children by their own labour can maintain themselves. There are besides all kinds of foreign merchandise bought and returned by the merchants of the town, amounting to the sum...  History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain - Page 43by Sir Edward Baines - 1835 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1807 - 910 pages
...by their own labour, can maintain themselves. There are, besides, all kinds of foreign merchandize brought and returned, by the merchants of the town, amounting to the sum of many thousand pounds." In a small treatise, written by Lewis Roberts, a merchant, and entitled, " The Merchant's... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1830 - 216 pages
...children by their own labour can maintain themselves ; there are besides all kinds of foreign merchandize brought and returned by the merchants of the town,...amounting to the sum of many thousands of pounds weekly." In this account it is asserted that the parish contained 27,000 communicants. Soon after this period... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - 1830 - 452 pages
...their own labour can maintain themselves. There are besides all kind of foreign merchandise bought and returned by the merchants of the town, amounting to the sum of many thousands of pounds weekly. There are in the town forty-eight subsidy men, besides a great number of burgesses ; and four quarter... | |
 | James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - 1836 - 562 pages
...their own labour, can maintain themselves. There are, besides, all kinds of foreign merchandize bought and returned by the merchants of the town, amounting to the sum of many thousand pounds weekly." From the bills of mortality of the Collegiate Church, it appears that within... | |
 | James Wheeler (of Prestwich.) - 1836 - 566 pages
...their own labour, can maintain themselves. There are, besides, all kinds of foreign merchandize bought and returned by the merchants of the town, amounting to the sum of many thousand pounds weekly." From the bills of mortality of the Collegiate Church, it appears that within... | |
 | John Reilly (of Manchester.) - 1859 - 368 pages
...their own labour can maintain themselves. There are besides all kinds of foreign merchandise bought and returned by the merchants of the town, amounting to the sum of many thousands of pounds weekly. There are in the town forty-eight subsidy men, besides a great number of burgesses ; and four quarter... | |
 | Chetham Society - 1864 - 252 pages
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 | Manchester (England). Court-Leet - 1864 - 250 pages
...their own labour can maintain themselves. There are besides all kinds of foreign merchandise bought and returned by the merchants of the town, amounting to the sum of many thousands of pounds weekly. There are in the town forty-eight subsidymen [wealthy enough to contribute to the royal subsidies],... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - 1874 - 224 pages
...children by their own labour can maintain themselves ; there are besides all kinds of foreign merchandize brought and returned by the merchants of the town,...amounting to the sum of many thousands of pounds weekly." In this account it is asserted the parish contained 27,000 communicants. 1651. Charles II., on his... | |
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