Caption title., Place and date of publication based on provence: formerly bound in a collection of chapbooks published in Lichfield in the 1770s., First line: Miss Diana G---y is arrived at this meeting for the diversion of those gentlemen who are stong in hand ..., Not in ESTC., and Broadsides printed on laid paper and mounted in an album bound in red, quarter-leather morocco with Cockerell-marbled boards and vellum corners, with black-leather, gilt-stamped spine label. For further information, consult library staff.
Interleaved throughout., Occasioned by the founding of the Magdalen Hospital, London., Dedication signed: Harris.--cf. Harris's list of Covent Garden ladies., and Imperfect: Leaf A1 torn in lower fore-edge with loss of some text.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Fleming, opposite Norfolk-Street, Strand
Caption title., Text at bottom of page: Bank, India, and South Sea stocks with their several annuities, and all sorts of government securities, bought and sold by commission., The Lewis Walpole Library copy: Address to "Madam" and annotated as number "28998"., With contemporary manuscript notes in ink filling in the blanks in ticket., and For further information, consult library staff.
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.
A broadside printing of an 18th century scam, exploiting the helplessness of English debtors before the law. And especially the perennial animus towards the legal profession--"the chicanery of petty-fogging (would-be) attornies, the shameful plunder and extortion of bailiffs and sheriff-brokers"--these and more epithets shouted at the reader in an assortment of bold and italic type
Description:
Title from first line of text., Date based on trial date of one of Bristowe's victims. Cf. Jackson, W. New and complete Newgate calendar, London, 1794-1795, v. V, p. 299-302., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary)
Published / Created:
1694.
Call Number:
File 64 W26 694++
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Whereas the sad and deplorable condition of many of our good subjects of our ancient borough of Warwick, hath been presented to us
Description:
Title from first lines of text., A broadside with an account of the great fire of 5 September 1694 that destroyed much of the city of Warwick and an appeal to officials and the public to come to the aid of the victims., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by Edward Jones for William Fall dwelling in Weld-Street