1758
21st. June
Wednesday
29th. June Thursday
Lewis Paul’s improved spinning machine was
patented. June 29.(7)
1758
Mr. Thomas Newton, bookseller, died.(7)
1758
Ellen Hayfield died at the reputed age of
104 years.(7)
1758
32 George II. cap. 61. Act for
discharging the inhabitants of the town of Manchester from the custom of
grinding their corn and grain, except malt, at certain water cornmills in the
said town called the School Mills, and for making a proper recompense to the
feoffees of such mills.
1758
The first carriage set up in Manchester by any
person actually in business was that of Madame Drake, who lived in Long
Miligate.(7)