ACKNOWLEDGEMENT is due to the authorities and libraries which have allowed me to quote from manuscript sources. Unpublished Crown copyright material in the Public Record Office has been reproduced by permission of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Material from the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments (Fitzwilliam Papers) has been reproduced by permission of Earl Fitzwilliam and Earl Fitzwilliam’s Wentworth Estates Company, through the courtesy of the Sheffield City Librarian. I must also make acknowledgement to the Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum (Place Collection); the Corporation of Nottingham (Framework-knitters Papers); Nottingham Public Libraries; the City Librarian, Leeds; and Captain J. B. E. Radcliffe, M.C. (Radcliffe Papers). I should also like to thank the librarians and staff at all these institutions for their assistance, as well as the librarians and staff at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, the Manchester Central Reference Library, the Norwich Central Reference Library, the Brotherton Library (Leeds University), the public libraries at Bradford, Halifax, and Wakefield, and the Tolson Memorial Museum, Huddersfield. The Luddite ‘ticket’ reproduced on p. 205 is Crown copyright, and is reproduced by permission of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office.
I am also indebted to the following houses for permission to cite passages in copyright works: George Allen & Unwin Ltd (The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by M. Weber, 1930); the Cambridge University Press (Economic History of Modern Britain by Sir John Clapham, 1929, Volume I, and The History and Social influence of the Potato by R. N. Salaman, 1949); the Clarendon Press, Oxford (Wilkes and Liberty by G. Rudé, 1962); Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd (The Town Labourer, 1917, and The Skilled Labourer, 1919, both by J. L. and B. Hammond); the Manchester University Press (Primitive Rebels by E. Hobsbawm, 1959); and the Oxford University Press (The Industrial Revolution by T. S. Ashton, 1948). The text of the Authorized Version of the Bible is Crown copyright and the extracts used herein are reproduced by permission.