oil, the soap, the tallow, and other ingredients used by the clothiers in dressing and scouring, &e., the lands thro' which it passes, which otherwise would be exceeding barren, are enrich'd by it to a degree beyond imagination.

"Then, as every clothier necessarily keeps one horse at least, to fetch home his wool and his provisions from the market, to carry his yarn to the spinners, his manufacture to the fulling mill, and when finished, to the market to be sold, and the like, so every one generally keeps a cow or two for his family. By this means the small pieces of enclosed land about each house are occupied; and by being thus fed, are still farther improved from the dung of the cattle. As for corn, they scarce sow enough to feed their poultry. Such, it seems, has been the bounty of nature to this country, that two things essential to life, and more particularly to the business followed here, are found in it, and in such a situation as is not to be met with in any part of England, if in the world beside: I mean coals and running water."

I have gleaned from the parochial records the names of twenty-nine woollen manufacturers who carried on business in the parish from 1742 to 1762. As an enumeration of the parties may now be deemed curious, I annex a list of them, with their residences :—James Mallalieu, Welli hole ; Joseph Mayall, Low-side ; Robert Buckley, Newearth ; Joseph Mayall, Hanging bank ; James Lees, Mumps ; James Ogden, Fowleach; Timothy Buckley, Newearth; John Wrigley, Lower moor; John Buckley, Nether hey, Glodwick; Joseph Mayall, Greenacres ; James Lees, Greenacres; George Booth, Greenacres ; John Wrigley, Greenacres; William Buckley, Waterhead mill ; Thomas Cheetham, Poden ; John Wrigley, Poden ; Paul Cowper, Moor-side; John Cowper, Sholver moor; Abraham Dronsfield, Sholver; Robinson, Sholver; Abraham Leach,

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