SCRUBBING DUTIES
[Drop-head title:] Observations on the Duty upon soap.
[London].
[s.n.], [1730].
Dimensions 200 x 300 mm.
[2]pp. Single sheet, printed on both sides. Woodcut head- piece and decorative initial. Docket-title to verso. Old central horizontal fold.
A rare survival of a handbill identifying the deprivation suffered by soap makers due to exorbitant duties, issued following a speech delivered by George II recommending that Parliament find 'some Methods for Easing his Subjects employed in the Manufactures'.
'The Duty upon Soap. as it stands, is One Penny Half-penny upon every Pound of Soap made in Great Britain: Which. must be allowed to be a very heavy one, if it is considered, that it is one Third of the Value of the Best Soap, and very near half the Value of the Under Soaps'.
It is noted that the 'Makers of Soap' are further aggrieved by smuggling operations: 'the Largeness of the Duty encourages the running of foreign-made Soap into Great Britain, great Quantities of which are clandestinely imported into several of the Ports of this Island, without paying any part of that double Duty to which by Law it is subjected'.
ESTC records copies at just four locations (Columbia, Harvard, NYPL, and Senate House).
'The Duty upon Soap. as it stands, is One Penny Half-penny upon every Pound of Soap made in Great Britain: Which. must be allowed to be a very heavy one, if it is considered, that it is one Third of the Value of the Best Soap, and very near half the Value of the Under Soaps'.
It is noted that the 'Makers of Soap' are further aggrieved by smuggling operations: 'the Largeness of the Duty encourages the running of foreign-made Soap into Great Britain, great Quantities of which are clandestinely imported into several of the Ports of this Island, without paying any part of that double Duty to which by Law it is subjected'.
ESTC records copies at just four locations (Columbia, Harvard, NYPL, and Senate House).
ESTC N7558, Hanson 4108.
£ 250.00
Antiquates Ref: 33200
