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1745 December 4th Prince Charlie – the New Pretender ‘wearing tartan and a green gold bonnet over a white wig rode into the Market Place bagpipes being played.’ He stayed at Exeter House. His secretary – Murray is said to have gone into a local Inn and asked for accommodation for 7,000 or was it 9,000? He ‘borrowed’ ￡3,00 from the local land tax office. Some of his men were described as ‘ feends out of hell and cut throats’. Left the town on 6th December 1745 for Scotland via Ashbourne Peter S. Fox for The Geographical Association April MMXIII Thomas Cotchett brought stocking frames from Holland and a local millwright George Sorocold erected them on the north end of Derwent Island. They had 1,340 spindles and 8,410 bobbins and were operated by a 13? foot water wheel. John Lombe was an apprentice in Cotchett Mill. He discovered that Italian Machines were better than Dutch. He went to Italy – worked in an Italian Mill – memorised the workings of the mill and the machinery – returned in 1717 and got local workmen to build new machines and took over Cotchett’s Mill Full Street – Anglo Saxon ‘ful’ meant foul 1599 first named on a map. Woolley says it was one of the most fashionable addresses in Derby. Peter S. Fox for The Geographical Association April MMXIII Was a millwright and engineer [c1690] was involved in the building of the Silk Mill. Showing friends around he fell into the mill race but was pulled out unhurt. Without Sorocold’s skill it is doubtful whether the silk mill would have worked. Machines 1702 for Thomas Crothett replaced in 1717-1718 by Thomas and John Lombe’s Mill Peter S. Fox for The Geographical Association April MMXIII Thomas Cotchett – a Barrister and an old man brought four Dutch Silk machines [1,340 spindles and 8,410 bobbins] to Derby. He used George Sorocold to build the water wheel [13.5 feet in diameter] John Lombe was an apprentice at the mill and had heard that Italian Machines were better than Dutch. He went to Italy to work in an Itali