Broadside
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A single-sheet English broadside, c. 1700-1709, setting out the grievances of London and other English port rope-makers. It explains that imported foreign cordage and yarn pay lower net duties than English-made cordage, so the colonies buy foreign rope, and that wartime impressment and extra apprentices have left journeymen without work. The rope-makers petition for the drawback to be abolished on foreign yarn and cordage.
- Type
- Ephemera
- Date
- 1709
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- Scanned from microfilm
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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