Exeter and Parliament Seek Repeal of Cyder Duty
Letters from Exeter and other towns express thanks for the Chamber’s support of a bill imposing a new excise duty on cyder and Perry. Delegates urge repeal, citing harmful consequences, while MPs pledge to defend constitutional liberty and oppose the measure.
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Benjamin Heath
Eigg
Exeter
Cyder
Perry
Tuckfield
Ely
Sarsden
J. Walter
Paltimore
Excise
Richard Bampfylde
City of
Heath
Devon
Chamber of Freter
Kingestreet
St.James’s
J.parber
Printed paper defamatory to Robert Ledger at Symons Wharf
In a Lonous dated May 21 1763 a printed paper accuses Robert Ledger of distributing a list of traders to tempt shipments to his wharf at Symons’s Wharf, while Maddison and Etherington are named as agents. The author denounces the allegations as false and defends Ledger’s commercial plans, promising access to the original agreement at Symon’s Wharf and praising efforts to boost trade in Gareborough amid a harsh time. A postscript from AGRICOLA complains of cider tax harms and urges repeal to avoid ruin of orchards and livelihoods.
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Amelia
Prussia
Berlin
Aix-la- Chapelle
Quedlinburg
Ferdinand of
Southampton
Belleisle
Thomas
Richard
Drummond
Elizabeth
Yeoman
Nightingale
Roderick
Rog
Sauier
Rochelle
Young
Tortola
Georgia
St. Thomas’s
John and
Exeter
Corke
Dominica
St. Kit’s
John Gerkes
Cornelius Adrians
Anhoud
Barnard Kas
Matter
Baltic
Bremen
Jutland
Windsor-forest
George Maddison
11Th Regiment of Foot
Qth Regiment of Foot
Duroure
Nesbit
John Warren
31St Regiment of Foot
Col. Oughton
Francis Laye
John Jennings
7Th Regiment of Dragoons
George Howard
Alexander Purves
Bart
Francis Browne
28Th Regiment of Foot
George Townshend
Thomas Littler
William Cashell
25Th Regiment of Foot
George Lenox
Robert Watson
Christopher Bath
Portugal
Dodson
Ireland
St. George’s Hanover Square
M‘gill
Edward Weld
Miss Petre
Lord Petre
Lutworth
Wareham
Dorsetshire
George Chippendale
Newgate
Bombay
Prince of Wales
Capt. Court
Rathbone Place
Soho Square
Thomas Mulfo
Lonous
Gainsborough
Mappisoyn
Etherington
Robert Ledger
Symons’s Wharf
Robert Leder
London
Symons
Ralpi’s Key
Madallon
Echerington
Symouns
Symon’s Wharf
Maddison and
Meherington
London Evening Post
Hertford
Cyder
Agricola
P.S
Immature verse on wartime loyalty and liberty
A fragmentary poem fragment attacks perceived betrayal of liberty with harsh lines about enemies of the country. The text hints at patriotic duty and the struggle between allegiance and dissent in a wartime context.
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Iris Shoe
Kingston
John Collins
Ryézare Fair
Fibbester-hill
Godstone
Surry
Strand
Gravesend
Alderman Cockayne
Mansion House
Deptford
The
France
Cimon