Note 22 — VOLUME VII SLICE V Cosway to Coucy (continued 4)

Mrs Crompton, wife of Samuel Crompton, we are told, used to employ her son George shortly after he could walk, as a “dolly-peg” to tread the cotton in the soapy water in which it was placed for washing. See French’s Life of Crompton, pp. 58-59 (3rd ed.). Rowbotham in his diary gives two accounts of fires which were caused by carelessness in drying cotton.