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170918578N. p. but London: n. p. 1709 or 1710. First edition. Somewhat dust soiled and worn with a small tear from the blank fore-edge; old fold; in good to very good condition. Single leaf evidently extracted from a nonce volume with traces of calf along one edge 12.75 x 8 inches with a printed docket title on the verso. An early example of industry lobbying a petition to Parliament on the loss of jobs across England due to public mourning; among those affected by the evident sumptuary restrictions and named here include weavers silk-dyers silk-throwers traders with Turkey and Italy and the white bone lace-makers of Bedford Buckingham and Northampton who "amount to Fourty Thousand sic whose whole Dependence was on this Manufacture and are now by Reason of this Present Mourning Reduc'd to the last Extremity by the Loss of their Trade". Hanson assigns the date 1706 to this petition which is followed by ESTC which notes a single copy at Chetham's Library in Manchester--though given that the text begins "That at the Death of the Prince of Denmark the Colour'd Silk Goods in the Mercers Hands within the Bills of Mortality by a Moderate Computation Amounted to the Value of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds and upwards; the greatest Part whereof lyes Dead on their Hands to this Day" this would suggest that the plea dates to after the death of Queen Anne's consort Prince George of Denmark and Norway Duke of Cumberland on October 28 1708; further the History and Proceedings of the House of Commons: 1706-1713 London 1742 vol. 4 pp. 139-140 notes taking up a petition on February 2 1709 O.S. from the Cities of London and Westminster on this very problem with specific phrases of this text integrated. Hanson Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750 677 Manufactures. Small ink autograph number to the upper corner of the recto. n. p., unknown books