was sold in 1743. A cotton mill upon a larger scale, on a stream of water, was established at Northampton, about 1742-3. Mr. Cave, editor of the Gentleman's Magazine, was the monied partner, and a Mr. Yeoman the manager; the entire number of spindles and bobbins in this concern was but 250, and the number of workers 54. The aggregate wages of 50 of these hands for one week in October, 1748, amounted to £2 19s.7d. The value of 300 spindles of Wyatt's machines, including the cost of the license to use them, was estimated at £1200. The prices paid for spinning were variable, but for some ordinary sorts the wages were a penny per hank or skein. These yarns contained twelve, sixteen, twenty, twenty-four, and higher numbers of skeins in a pound. Some yarn was so fine that a guinea per pound was paid for spinning it. In 1758, Mr. Paul procured another patent for the carding of wool and cotton, but he proved unsuccessful with it. Wyatt's machine was far from being perfect, and differed greatly from Arkwright's in its form and construction. In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1749, vol. xix., p. 16, Wyatt's machine is described as consisting of "about fifty spindles placed in a circle, and brushed round with a horizontal wheel; each spindle is stopped when the yarn breaks, and is put in motion again, when a child that tends five or six spindles has mended the breach." There appears to have been a cotton mill at Leominster, in Herefordshire, before 1754, established by a Mr. Bourne, for it is recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxiv., p. 482, that on the 24th of October, 1754, the works were destroyed by fire, and it is added that, besides the loss of the partners, the single loss of Mr. Bourne was computed at £1600. The mill at Northampton did not prosper, and was abandoned about 1764. Some of the machinery, particularly the carding cylinder, which had been invented by Mr. Paul before 1748, was purchased by a Mr. Morris, probably Mr. Henry Morris, an acquaintance of Wyatt in 1743. Mr. Wyatt died in 1766. Wyatt and Paul's machinery, particularly

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