The Case of the Merchants-Sufferers, in the Late Dreadful Fire,

by the Burning of Sugar, Ginger, Oil, and Sarsarilla caption title by Fire

$475 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A rare leaflet lobbying Parliament on behalf of British merchants who had recently lost £22,500 worth of sugar, ginger, oil, and sasparilla in a great fire. The merchants had just recently imported the goods, paying approximately £3000 in customs. In the present document the merchants petition the House of Commons to allow them to import goods duty-free up to the value of the customs of the goods destroyed. This is among the earliest examples of commercial lobbying literature,

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