- Creator:
- Independent Shopkeeper
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- File 646 788 In38
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Caption title., An address to Lord Hood and Pitt expressing outrage at a riot of sailors in Westminster and the damage done to the tradesmen in the area, on top of the grinding taxes imposed by the Pitt admisitration., Signed: An independent shopkeeper., "Bond-Street, Friday evening, July 25, 1788.", Westminster election handbill., Not in ESTC., and Partial watermark. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain., Great Britain, and England.
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Pitt, William, 1759-1806.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1788, Retail trade, Taxation, Public opinion, and Sailors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Card to Lord Hood
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- Creator:
- Enemy to the Shop Tax
- Published / Created:
- [1788]
- Call Number:
- File 646 788 En56
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Caption title., Signed: Enemy to the shop tax., In support of Lord John Townshend against Lord Samuel Hood in the Westminster election of 1788., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and Great Britain.
- Subject (Name):
- Great Britain. Parliament, Townshend, John, 1757-1833., and Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816.
- Subject (Topic):
- Elections, 1788, Taxation, Public opinion, and Retail trade
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Shop tax, or no shop tax?.
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- Published / Created:
- [1780]
- Call Number:
- File 66 780 T627+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Name):
- George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Paper and Taxation
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Know ye, that we whose names are hereunto set, and seals affixed, being the major part of the Chief Commissioners and Governors for the management of the receipt of excise, and other duties put under our management and receipt, in pursuance of the powers and authorities to us given, have constitued, deputed and appointed [blank] ...