296 History of the 



"ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT 



" Indented and made, and fully concluded upon, the eighteenth 

 day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred 

 and ninety-five. Between Christopher Hargreaves, of Haslingden, 

 in the County of Lancaster, Cotton Spinner ; Henry Whitaker, of 

 Bacop, in the Forest of Rossendale, and County aforesaid, Cotton 

 Dealer ; John Lord, of Bacop, aforesaid, Cotton Dealer ; and 

 Edmund Lord, of Bacop, aforesaid. Cotton Dealer. 



" And first of all the said parties have joined themselves to be 

 Co-partners together in the Art or Trade of Spinning and Roving 

 of Cotton, and all things thereunto belonging ; or such other 

 business in the cotton line as they shall hereafter pursue. And 

 also in buying, selling, vending and retailing of all sorts of wares 

 and goods belonging to the said Trade of Spinning and Roving 

 Cotton ; which said Co-partnership is to continue for the Term of 

 Eight years and Ten months, from the eighth day of July next 

 ensuing. And for the carrying on of the said joint Trade, each of 

 the said Parties doth covenant and agree, that they will each of 

 them bring into the said Joint Trade and Stock in Money and 

 Goods to be used therein, on or before the eighth day of July next, 

 the full sum of Twenty-five Pounds sterling. And it is hereby 

 mutually covenanted and agreed upon by the said Parties, that 

 their trade of Spinning and Roving of Cotton shall be carried on 

 at their Joint Engine or Factory House situate at Lane-side, near 

 Haslingden, or any other place which they, the said parties, shall 

 mutually agree upon for that purpose, &c. (Signed), Christopher 

 Hargreaves, Henry Whitaker, John Lord, Edmund 

 Lord. Sealed, signed, and delivered on parchment, duly stamped 

 in the presence of James Whitaker and John Piccop." 



From the small sum of the Capital subscribed to the concern by 

 each of the four partners, it may be concluded that their operations 

 were but of very limited extent. A further deed of Partnership, 

 dated 1803, to which the above mentioned Edmund Lord was a 

 party, along with Joshua Lord, of Meadows, near Broadclough, 



