English Economic History: Select Documents. Various

Defoe's account of the West Riding Cloth Industry, 1724 482 2. Defoe's account of the Woollen Trade (temp. George II) 483 3. Defoe's account of the Corn Trade (temp. George II) 487 4. Defoe's account of the Coal Trade (temp. George II) 491 5. A description of Middlemen in the Woollen Industry, 1739 492 6. Report on the Condition of Children in Lancashire Cotton Factories, 1796 495 7. Newcastle Coal Vend, 1771–1830 497 8. The Old Apprenticeship System in the Woollen Industry, 1806 499 9. A Petition of Cotton Weavers, 1807 500 10. Depression of Wages and its Causes in the Cotton Industry, 1812 501 11. Evidence of the Condition of Children in Factories, 1816 502 12. Change in the Cotton Industry and the Introduction of Power Loom Weaving, 1785–1807 505 13. Evidence by Factory Workers of the Condition of Children, 1832 510 14. Women's and Children's Labour in Mines, 1842 516 15. Description of the Condition of Manchester by John Robertson, Surgeon, 1840 519

      SECTION II

       AGRICULTURE AND ENCLOSURE

1.	Enclosure Proceedings in the Court of Chancery, 1671	525
2.	Advice to the Stewards of Estates, 1731	526
3.	Procedure for Enclosure by Private Act, 1766	528
4.	Farming in Norfolk, 1771	530
5.	A Petition against Enclosure, 1797	531
6.	Extracts on Enclosure from the Surveys of the Board of Agriculture, 1798–1809	532
7.	Arthur Young's Criticism of Enclosure, 1801	536
8.	Enclosure Consolidating Act, 1801	537
9.	General Enclosure Act, 1845	541

      SECTION III

       GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF WAGES, CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT, AND PUBLIC HEALTH

1.	An Act against Truck, 1701	545
2.	A Wages Assessment at a Warwickshire Quarter Sessions, 1738	546
3.	Spitalfields Weavers Act, 1773	547
4.	A Middlesex Wages Assessment under the Spitalfields Act, 1773	551
5.	Agricultural Labourers' Proposals for a Sliding Scale of Wages, 1795	552
6.	Debates on Whitbread's Minimum Wage Bill, 1795–6	554
7.	Arbitration Act for the Cotton Industry, 1800	568
8.	Amendment of the Arbitration Act, 1804	570
9.	The First Factory Act, 1802	571
9A.	Minutes of Committee on Children in Factories	573
10.	Calico Printers' Petition for Regulation, 1804	573
11.	Report on Calico Printers' Petition, 1806	574