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A letter from a member of Parliament, on the plate-tax.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC75 A100 756l
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Silverware--Taxation--Great Britain.
- Silverware.
- Finance, Public--Great Britain--18th century.
- Finance, Public.
- Taxation.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 31 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Letter on the plate-tax
- Fingerprint:
- n.se idre Weto Puwh (3) 1756 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Scott, at the Black Swan in Pater-noster-Row, 1756.
- Notes:
- Head-piece.
- Signatures: A-D⁴.
- Press figure "1", p. 20.
- Favors, as a means of financing the war, an additional duty on cards, dice and public house licenses instead of the proposed tax on silver plate; also favors reducing the sinking fund.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has "1756" and "(2.)" written in ms.
- Cited in:
- ESTC, T105983
- Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 9162
- OCLC:
- 30688299
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