Wool Register scheme to curb wool exportation proposed
A detailed plan proposes universal British and Irish wool registration from shearing, with a 5s per pound duty until domestically manufactured. It argues officers must be independent, subject to annual Parliament inspection, and to audits by rate payers. The author claims potential million-pound yearly exchequer gains and no taxed impositions, dated February 17, 1740 1.
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Great Britain
Ireland
Woolf
James
William
Customs
William and
France
Ships and dispatches from the West Indies and Britain
Letters from Kirkwal report thirteen saved from the Sweda of Gottenburg with Captain and crew aboard a float as hopes rise for survivors. Other ships’ crews drown, privateers threaten vessels, and regimental captains are listed. Antigua and St Kitts news include Fleming’s death, Ogle’s fleet, and colonial salutes amid ongoing war efforts.
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Kirkwal
Gottenburg
William Brown
Cunting
Fair-Ile
Norway
Arriv
Magehy
Cornwallis
Dawes
Rushton
Wooley
King
Scott
Brudenell
Bradman
Moore
Pawlett
Heath
Groundman
Fielding
Speed
Mackenzie
Swete
Gore
Sharpe
Hanmer
Cary
Browfe
Williams
Dredge
Johnston
Wynne
Bowles
Jeffries
Lafarrell
Durand
Sewell
Grylls
Macdonelal
Littleton
Thickness
Fawkes
Northall
Pritchard
Sterling
Farris
Singleton
James
Halyburton
Read
Spencer
Lieute
Lampriere
Mordaunt
Delostan
Montgomery
Stuart
Collisr
Barlow
Gray
Anderson
Lee Barbett
Gough
Sea
Cholmondeley
Barbett
Gothke
Douglass
Delaugace
Lee
Hadveys
Cage
Bumfield
Degrangues
Bruce
Brodie
Duterme
Daponect
Mackengie
Gamilton
Chaloner Ogle
Vernon
Antigua
St. Kitt’s
Capt
Wager
Lubén
Leeward Islands
Dominica
England
Lord Cathcart
Wentworth
Bristol
Fleming
Govenor
Gascoigne
Torbay
Chalonerle
Ors
Ash
Liverpool
Barbadoes
Byng
Jonathan Forward
Ely
Cologne
Corbet
Richard Corbet
Shrewsbury
William Kinaston
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London
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