The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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508 PARLIAMENTARY COLBERTISM AD. 16% the eighteenth century, show how deeply-seated and how wide-spread the severance between capital and labour had and formed become. The struggle had assumed considerable proportions tions in Devonshire, in 1718, when a proclamation against unlawful clubs was published, reciting that, whereas “complaint had been made to the Government that great numbers of Wool- combers and Weavers in several parts of the Kingdom had lately formed themselves into lawless Clubs and Societies which had illegally presumed to use a Common Seal and to act as Bodies Corporate by making and unlawfully conspiring to execute certain By-laws or Orders, whereby they pre- tend to determine who had a right to the Trade, what and how many Apprentices and Journeymen each man should keep at once, together with the prices of all their Manu- factures and the manner and materials of which they should be wrought; and that when many of the said Conspirators wanted work because their Masters would not submit to such pretended Orders and unreasonable Demands, they fed them with Money till they could again get employment, in order to oblige their Masters to employ them for want of other hands; and that the said Clubs by their great numbers and their correspondence in several of the Trading Towns of the Kingdom became dangerous to the publick peace, especially in the Counties of Devon and Somerset; where many Riots had been committed, private Houses broken open, the Subjects assaulted, wounded and put in peril of their lives, great Quantities of Woollen Goods cut and spoilt, Prisoners set at Liberty by Force, and that the Rioters refused to disperse, notwithstanding the reading of the Proclamation required by the late Riot Act. For these causes the Proclamation enjoined the putting the said Riot Act and another Act made in the reign of Ed. VL (intitled The Bill of Con- spiracy of the Victuallers and Craftsmen) in Execution against all such as should unlawfully confederate and com- sn Devon and KNomerset. them as domestic workers. ¢It is sufficiently known to most persons about this Citty, what great mischief and disorders happened by the Insurrection of the Weavers in August last, not only to the breaking of the public Peace, but to the great damage of several persons whose Looms and Instruments of Trade they forcibly took away from them and burned.” They persisted day after day “in rontinual tnmulis!! and laid ¢ violent hands on looms.’

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