Proposals from the woollen manufacturers.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wool industry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Wool industry.

Silk industry--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Silk industry.

Textile industry--Government policy--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Textile industry.

Physical Description:

1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 40 x 21 cm.

Other Title:

Text begins: To the honourable the committee of the whole House, of the Commons of Great-Britain, in Parliament assembled ... : Whereas the honourable House of Commons has been pray'd, by the petition of the masters, workmen, and other persons, concerned in the woollen and silk manufactures within the cities of London and Westminster and borough of Southwark, in behalf of themselves and all other persons concerned in the said manufactures throughout Great-Britain, to provide such remedies and give such relief as the honourable House should seem meet, to prevent the mischievous practice of exporting wool and woollen goods manufactured in Ireland to foreign countries contrary to law ...

Fingerprint:

q;q; q;q; sqq; q;q; (C) 1734 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[London : s.n., 1734]

Notes:

Docket title.

Imprint place and date from ESTC. "With a list of names, which includes Sir William Billers, Lord Mayor of London, among others; Billers was Lord Mayor in 1734."--ESTC.

Folio half-sheet (vertical chain lines).

Text signed at end: All which is humbly submittedth to advance both the landed and trading interest and the easing parish-rates. By your humble and most obedient servants. Walter Yerbury, Thomas Gregg, Richard Pitts, Daniel Webb, John Chinn, Robert Rogers, Peter Gervaise, William Morris, Peter Newton.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has ms. numeral ("268") in blue pencil at head of recto of sheet; early ms. correction to text on recto of sheet.

RBC copy has illegible round ink stamp on verso of sheet.

RBC copy: portion of left-hand margin excised with some loss of docket title.

Cited in:

ESTC N44307

OCLC:

1285234117