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Cloth-dreffer Petition in Early British Parliament
The Third Session of the Sixth Parliament of Great Britain continued with a petition from Leeds cloth-dreffers and cloth-workers protesting unauthorized use of the trade by merchants and others. The House referred the petition to the committee, ordered hearing, and instructed merchants to join the committee as they prepared an additional Book of Rates with rules and regulations.
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Great Britain
King George
John O Wilkinson
William Maude
Stephen Parkenson
John Tennant
Leeds
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York
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