First Report from the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into

the Operation of the Existing Laws Affecting the Exportation

of Machinery, 1841. Journals of the House of Commons. Journals of the House of Lords. Minutes of the Evidence Taken before a Committee of the House of

Commons, on the Adjustment of the Commercial Intercourse

between Great Britain and Ireland, 1785. Minutes of the Evidence Taken before a Committee of the House

of Lords on the Adjustment of the Commercial Intercourse

between Great Britain and Ireland, 1785. Principles of Mr. Harrison's Time-Keeper, with Plates of the Same.

Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude. London,

1767. Report from the Select Committee on Combination Laws, partic

ularly as to Act 5 Geo. IV, c. 95, 1825. Report from the Select Committee on the Laws Relating to the

Export of Tools and Machinery, 1825. Report from the Select Committee on the Laws Respecting Friendly

Societies, 1825. Report of the Commissioners for His Majesty's Customs to the House

of Commons on an Adjustment of the Commercial Intercourse

between Great Britain and Ireland, 1785. Report of the Commissioners of Excise to the House of Commons,

1785. On Irish Resolutions. Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council Relating to Trade

and Plantations upon the Two Questions Referred to Them by His Majesty's Order in Council, 1785. On Irish Reso

lutions. Report of the Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Select Commit

tee on the State of the Children Employed in the Manufactures

of the United Kingdom, 1816. Reports from Committees of the House of Commons, 1715-1802. 15

vols, and index. Rutland MSS., Historical MSS. Commission. 3 vols. 1894. Second Report from the Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into

the Existing Laws Affecting the Exportation of Machinery, 1841. Statutes. WOODCROFT, B., Subject-matter Index of Patents of Invention from

March 2, 1617 to October 1, 1852. 2 vols. London, 1857. WOODCROFT, B., Titles of Patents of Invention Chronologically

Arranged from March 2, 1617 to October 1, 1852. 2 vols.
London, 1854.

3. Publications of Societies and Miscellaneous Collections of Sources:

ter,

Articles of Agreement. Rules, Orders, and Regulations Made and

To Be Observed by and between the Members of the Friendly Associated Cotton Spinners within the Township of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, and in Other Townships and Places

in the Neighborhood Thereof. Manchester, 1792. Articles of the Falkirk Society. Newcastle, 1783. Articles, Rules, Orders, and Regulations, Made and to Be Observed

by and between the Members of the Friendly Associated Cotton Spinners within the Township of Manchester, and in Other Townships and Places in the Neighborhood Thereof. Manches

1795. BAILEY, A. M., One Hundred and Six Copper Plates of Mechanical

Machines and Implements of Husbandry Approved and Adopted by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures

and Commerce. London, 1782. Bailey, W., Advancement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce; or,

Descriptions of the Useful Machines and Models Contained in the Repository of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts,

Manufactures and Commerce. London, 1772. BLAND, A. E., BROWN, P. A., and TAWNEY, R. H., English Economic

History: Select Documents. 2d ed. London, 1915. Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, and Maps belonging to the

Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Com

merce. London, 1790. College of Arts and Sciences Instituted at Manchester, June 6, 1783.

Circular dated July 9, 1783. Correspondence between the Right Honble. William Pitt and Charles

Duke of Rutland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1781-1787.

Edinburgh and London, 1890. Correspondence of Josiah Wedgwood, 1781-1794. Ed. by K. E.

Farrer. London, 1906. Correspondence of the Right Honorable Sir John Sinclair, Bart., with

Reminiscences. 2 vols. London, 1831. DAVIES, J., A Collection of the Most Important Cases Respecting

Patents of Invention. London, 1816. Dossie, R., Memoirs of Agriculture and Other Economical Arts.

London, 1768, etc. [FRIENDLY SOCIETIES]-A Collection of Pamphlets containing rules

and regulations of a large number of friendly societies of various types of the latter part of the eight:nth and the early part of the nineteenth century. British Museum, 8275.bb. 1 to 5.

HARLAND, J., Collectanea Relating to Manchester and Its Neighbor

hood. Vols. 68 and 72, Chetham Society Publications, 1866,

1867. HEATON, H. (ed.), Letter Books of Joseph Holroyd (Cloth-factor)

and Sam Hill (Clothier). Documents Illustrating the Organizaof the Yorkshire Textile Industry in the Early Eighteenth Cen

tury. Halifax, 1914. Journal and Correspondence of William Lord Auckland. [G. Hogge,

ed.]. 4 vols. London, 1961. LANGFORD, J. A., Century of Birmingham Life. 2 vols. Birmingham,

1868. Poorly organized but valuable extracts from local con

temporaneous literature. Letters and Papers of the Society at Bath for the Encouragement

of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Bath,

1783, etc. Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society.

London, 1785, etc. Museum Rusticum et Commerciale: or, Select Papers on Agriculture,

Commerce, Arts, and Manufactures. London, 1764, etc. Published by virtue of the patronage of members of the London

Society of Arts. Parliamentary History. Ed. by William Cobbett. London, 1813

1817. Parliamentary Register. London, 1775-1791 (Vols. I-XXX). Less

dependable than the Parliamentary History, but published contemporaneously and contains debates not included in Cobbett's

.

work.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The Royal Society

adhered in the main to its traditional interest in abstract

philosophy and pure science. Plan of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon

Tyne. 1793. Plan of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures

and Commerce. A circular dated London, Feb. 19, 1755. Premiums Offered by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts,

Manufactures and Commerce. Various circulars and pamphlets

issued during the early years of the society. Public Proceedings of the General Chamber of Manufactures of

Great Britain on the French Treaty. London, 1787. Report of the Committee of the Magistrates of the Counties of

Chester and Lancaster, Appointed for Taking into Consideration the Present Mode of Maintaining, Conveying, and Shipping Vagrants in the Said Counties. [Lancaster, 1785.]

Report of the Committee of the Town Council of Glasgow, Appointed

to Consider the Corn Bill at Present Pending in Parliament.

Glasgow, 1791. (Bound in Board of Trade Papers, 6/133.) Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing

the Comforts of the Poor. London, 1798, etc. Rules and Orders of the Society Instituted at Bath for the En

couragement of Agriculture, Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Bath, 1783. Rules and Orders of the Society Instituted at London for the En

couragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. London,

1760, etc. Transactions of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manu

factures and Commerce. London, 1783, and annually there

after. Trial of a Cause Instituted by Richard Pepper Arden, Esq., His

Majesty's Attorney General, by Writ of Scire Facias, to Repeal a Patent Granted on the Sixteenth of December, 1775, to Mr. Richard Arkwright. (King's Bench, June 25, 1785.) London,

1785. Includes Case of Mr. Richard Arkwright and Company. WEBSTER, T., Reports and Notes of Cases on Letters Patent for In

ventions. 2 vols. London, 1844. Whole Proceedings on the Trial of an Action Brought by Thomas

Walker, Merchant, against William Roberts, Barrister at Law, for a Libel. Manchester, 1791.

5. Works of Reference, History, Travel, and Description:
Account of the Manner in which a Standing General Commercial

Committee Was Established at Birmingham for the Purpose of
Watching over and Conducting the Public Interests of that

Town and Neighborhood. Birmingham, 1784.
Agricultural Reports. Each report deals ordinarily with a single

county. Note in first volume, in British Museum: "This is a
complete collection of all the Reports, etc., of the Board of
Agriculture, from its first institution to its dissolution. It was
carefully collected by the Secretary of the Board, from whom it
was purchased.” The reports from the several counties are
bound together arbitrarily in a set of ten volumes. These are
the original reports made to the Board, a semi-official body, by
various persons chosen by the Board, usually residents of the
counties described. Some of the reports were later revised and
published for wider distribution. The titles being uniform, the
full title of the first only is given. Written largely from the
point of view of the country gentry, but extremely valuable.
The following are the more important volumes:
ANDERSON, J., General View of the Agriculture and Rural

Economy of the County of Aberdeen. Edinburgh,

1794.
BAILEY, J., and CULLEY, G., Cumberland. London, 1794.
BAILEY, J., and CULLEY, G., Northumberland. London,

1794.
BAIRD, T., Middlesex. London, 1793.
BILLINGSLEY, J., Somerset. London, 1794.
BISHTON, J., Salop. Brentford, 1794.
Boys, J., Kent. Brentford, 1794.
Brown, R., West Riding of Yorkshire. London, 1799.
BROWN, T., Derby. London, 1794.
CLARK, J., Hereford. London, 1794.
Davies, T., Wilts. London, 1794.
DONALDSON, J., Perth. London, 1794.
DONALDSON, J., Northampton. Edinburgh, 1794.
DRIVER, A. and W., Hants. London, 1794.
Foot, P., Middlesex. London, 1794.
FRASER, R., Cornwall. London, 1794.
FRASER, R., Devon. London, 1794.
FULLARTON, COL., Ayr. Edinburgh, 1793.
GRANGER, J., Durham. London, 1794.
HOLLAND, H., Chester. London, 1808. Not original edition.