Reasons Humbly Offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons,

by the Tobacco and Wine Merchants, against Payment of Interest for the Time Past

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A early political leaflet petitioning on behalf of tobacco and wine merchants for relief from interest on duties owed during the War of the Spanish Succession. The document 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 only two copies, at the British Library and Harvard. Hanson 2065. Item #21224

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