[GLOUCESTERSHIRE CLOTHIERS]

Proposals Humbly Offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, by the Gloucestershire Clothiers, and Other Woollen Manufactories, for the more effectual Preventing the Exportation of Wooll, &c. [caption title]

London? 1715. Broadsheet. [1]p. plus printed docket title on verso. Disbound. Small folio. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin.

A rare leaflet published on behalf of English clothing manufacturers, petitioning Parliament to improve enforcement of laws prohibiting the export of wool lest "a great Part of the Wooll Shorne this Season, will be clandestinely exported to France, and other Foreign Parts." 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 only three copies, two at the University of London's Senate House Library, and one at Oxford.

Goldsmiths 5221; Hanson 2144.

Item #21188

Price: $475.00