Caption title., A playbill., For further information, consult library staff., and Annotation on verso: "A great and overflowing audience from box pit and galleries /2 price at 5 to 9 tragedy over 5 past 10 and all concluded by a /4[?] feast eleven o'clock with Mr Roberts at Piazza Pit Room."
Publisher:
E. Macleish, printer, 2, Bow-Street, London
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616., Hoare, Prince, 1755-1834., and Kemble, John Philip, 1757-1823.
On Friday next, February 6th, 1778, will be presented a comedy ... and Mr. Wilkinson's night and the last time of his performing here
Description:
Caption title., At head of title: Mr. Wilkinson's night and the last time of his performing here., A playbill., and From a bound collection of playbills: [Collection of playbills assembled by Tate Wilkinson]. [England], [between 1748 and 1778]
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cibber, Colley, 1671-1757., Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777., and Covent Garden Theatre.
By His Majesty's servants, on Wednesday, March 12th, 1788, will be presented the celebrated comedy, written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., called The school for scandal and Theatre tickets sold at the booksellers' shops will be received this night ...
Description:
Caption title., At head of title: The theatre tickets sold at the booksellers' shops will be received this night - Likewise tickets delivered for the benefit of Mr. Byles, box-keeper; Mr. Shevill, and Miss Carpenter., A playbill., Mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted before page 183 (leaf numbered '224' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816. and Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812.
Caption title., A handbill issued by the churchwardens of St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, forbidding businesses to operate on Sundays, "Except works of necessity" and also mandating the hours that households must show lights on the exteriors., Signed by the churchwardens: Thomas Kynaston and Richard Smith., Not in ESTC., and Mounted on thin card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
A certificate recording the appointment 31 May 1781 of Henry Hastings "gentleman to be collector for ... the district of Colchester and Maldon ... for administering the oaths ... taken by paper-makers ... for proving that paper brought to be stamped as stock in hand, was really, and bona fide made in Great Britain, before the commencement of ... An act for repealing the present duties upon paper, pasteboards, millboards and scaleboards, made in Great Britain, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof ... and also the oath taken by such makers of paper, for ascertaining the value of such paper ...”. The cost of war with America caused the British government to increase taxes. In 1781 the existing excise duty on paper was abolished and replaced with a more complicated scheme which imposed seventy-eight different rates applied on the various types of paper. Transitional arrangements allowed that paper produced before the new system came into force could be taxed at the old rate, the holder of this certificate being required to take oaths from papermakers concerning such previously-manusfactured paper stock
Description:
Caption title., Dated in last line of text: "... in the year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred and eighty." Added in black ink "one"., Form printed on vellum with blanks filled in ms., With engraved initial letter portrait of George III at head., With embossed stamps of the signers and with postage tax stamps. Remnants of a wax seal on verso along with ms. note., Not in ESTC., Completed in manuscript with signatures and embossed “Excise Office” wafer seals of five Excise Commissioners: David Papillon, William Lowndes, Anthony Lucas, John Pownall, and Charles Garth. With blue paper tax stamp., and For further information, consult library staff.