An Easie Method To Raise This Present Year 1715 5000l Per Ann For Ever Without Taxing Either Persons

by Richard Carter

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A scarce leaflet, printed for distribution among members of the House of Commons, proposing a lottery to fund the salaries of ministers being installed at new churches in London and Westminster. The document is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature, which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC records four copies, at the Goldsmiths' Company, University of London,

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