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Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England
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Historical SummaryA glimpse of the rapidly growing machine manufacture in the northern counties, and of at least one of the evils connected with it, can be obtained from the following letter written in the same year as the last extract, 1791.
Letter from a correspondent in Gloucester, 1791, in Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts, Vol. XVI, p. 422. World History 372. A Letter from Gloucester (September 12, 1791)
A gentleman from York passed through this city a few days ago, who gave us a new confirmation of the flourishing state of the woolen trade in that county. He says that although so many machines have been erected, yet the trade has thereby been increased to that degree that at this time no less than seventy additional machines are now setting up in the neighborhood of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield. One manufacturer assured this gentleman that he was in such want of hands as to be driven to the expedient of procuring from the workhouses of London 500 poor children to be employed in his workshops.
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Chicago: "A Letter from Gloucester (September 12, 1791)," Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947) (Boston: Ginn, 1935, 1922), 613. Original Sources, accessed May 13, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CYUY1KL2WWSEV2F.
MLA: . "A Letter from Gloucester (September 12, 1791)." Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, edited by Edward Potts Cheyney (1861-1947), Boston, Ginn, 1935, 1922, page 613. Original Sources. 13 May. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CYUY1KL2WWSEV2F.
Harvard: , 'A Letter from Gloucester (September 12, 1791)' in Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England. cited in 1922, Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to Illustrate a Short History of England, ed. , Ginn, 1935, Boston, pp.613. Original Sources, retrieved 13 May 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CYUY1KL2WWSEV2F.
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