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[202] £232,000 was raised by one committee alone between 1826 and 1829. See _Report of the Committee appointed at a Public Meeting at the City of London Tavern. May 2, 1826, to relieve the Manufacturers_, by W. H. Hyett, 1829.

[203] _Wool and Wool-combing_, by Burnley, p. 169.

[204] Home Office Papers, 40--20, 21, etc.; _Annual Register_, 1826, pp. 63, 70, 111, 128; Walpole’s _History of England_, vol. ii. p. 141.

[205] _A Letter to the Carpet Manufacturers of Kidderminster_, by the Rev. H. Price (1828, 16 pp.); _A Letter to the Rev. H. Price, upon the Tendency of Certain Publications of his_, by Oppidanus, 1828; and _A Verbatim Report of the Trial of the Rev. Humphrey Price upon a Criminal Information by the Kidderminster Carpet Manufacturers for Alleged Inflammatory Publications during the Turn-out of the Weavers_, 1829.

[206] _Resolutions of the Meeting of Journeymen Broad Silk Weavers at Spitalfields, April 16, 1829_; in Home Office Papers, 40--23, 24. See, for this period, Cunningham’s _Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times_, 1903, pp. 759-762; and also _The Skilled Labourer_, by J. L. and B. Hammond, 1919, published too late for us to make use of its interesting descriptions of the principal trades.