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
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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.
Title from item., Three separate handbills on a single sheet, as printed. The top and bottom handbills with the same imprint: Printed for the proprietor by J. Catnach, Alnwick. The middle handbill has no imprint but last line reads: Alwick, April 28th, 1802., and Ms. note in ink on verso: 1775 Pensacola Estate Deeds. For further information, consult library staff.
Signed at end: A freeman of Alnwick resident in London., First sentence: I beg leave to address you on the present important dispute between the D. of N-d and the said borough., Final sentence: The Chamberlains and Four and Twenty ... are unanimously resolved to oppose this unjustifiable interference of the D., and some gentlemen have already signified their intention of assistance, to prevent him from annihilating the ancient dependant franchises and immunities of the borough, and from his taking advantage of the general wreck to which his dangerous proceedings are evidently tending., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Alnwick (England)
Subject (Name):
Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1712-1786. and Alnwick (England). Chamberlains, Common Council, and Freemen of Alnwick.
I propose to publish by subscription, An analysis of the sun ...
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Caption title., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Letterpress subscription signed W.H (William Hogarth). Originally published on the verso of the first edition of Puggs Grace., and On page 289 in volume 3.
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
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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.
A Westminster election handbill., Caption title., First line of text: Gentlemen, I beg leave to return you my best thanks for the liberal and spirited support I received from you this day., Signed and dated at end: John Townshend. Bentinck-Street, July 18, 1788., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and Westminster (London, England)
Caption title., An electioneering handbill issued before the King's Lynn election of 1767., Not in ESTC., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., With a shell pattern border., An appeal for gifts of money in exchange for a pewter token. The dustmen who issued this appeal have gone to the effort of printing this document to protect their business interests from "the Savengers"., With: A pewter medal with a portrait of Queen Charlotte on the obverse and the legend "Caroline, Queen of England, died Augt. 1, 1821 aet. 53., Not in ESTC., For associated medal, search by call number: LWL Min. 148., and Mounted on blue paper with a cropped impression of a lithograph of a child dustman, hat in hand and hiding something behind his back, standing before a man who has turned away from a pool table and examines a piece of paper. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Nichols and Sons, Printers, Earl's Court, Cranbourn Street
