COMPENDIOUS HISTORY

OF THE

COTTON-MANUFACTURE;

WITH

A DISPROVAL OF THE CLAIM

OF

SIR RICHARD ARKWRIGHT

TO THE INVENTION OF ITS

INGENIOUS MACHINERY.

BY RICHARD GUEST.

Manchester:

PRINTED BY JOSEPH PRATT, CHAPEL WALKS,

AND SOLD BY

E. THOMSON, MARKET-STREET, AND W. AND W. CLARKE, MARKET-PLACE:
LONGMAN, HURST & Co. AND G. & W. B. WHITTAKER, LONDON.

1823.

CHAPTER X.

Invention of the Mule and Exportation of Twist

Change of Character and Manners, in the Population, superinduced by the extension of the Cotton

Manufacture

Moral and Religious Character of Weavers

CHAPTER XI.

CHAPTER XII.

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The Steam Loom