Reasons Humbly Offered to the Honourable House of Commons, for Relieving the Fair-Dealer in Pepper caption title

by Pepper

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

An early petitionary leaflet calling attention to pepper merchants defrauding British customs and requesting relief for the Fair-Dealer. The document notes that during its time, One thousand Bags of Pepper is Yearly Consumed in England ; a bag of pepper was 316 pounds. This is among the earliest examples of commercial lobbying literature, which first began proliferating during the major changes in British government in the mid-1710s. ESTC records four copies in the U.K. and one in the

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