Description:
Printed broadside reads: "THE CASE/ OF THE IMPORTERS OF LINNEN, AND/ LINNEN-DRAPERS, AND PACKERS IN LONDON, AS TO SEVERAL DUTIES/ DEMANDED ON LINNENS, LAWNS, NECK-CLOTHS, BARRAS,/ AND BUCKRAMS, IMPORTED FROM HAMBROUGH, [London? 1714]. Small folio broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Dbd. A scarce British petitionary leaflet published on behalf of the linen industry, seeking clarification of or amendment to a recent bill adding duties to various kinds of linen cloth. The document, printed in the final year of Queen Anne's reign, is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating during the major changes in British government in the mid- 1710s.

Tags:
cloth

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