Gentlemen, we attended the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations on the 12th of November, 1719. and deliver'd them a representation of which the following is a copy. : 'The humble representation of the merchants, traders, and factors, whose names are hereunto subscrib'd in behalf of themselves, and many thousands of poor employ'd in making of linnen [sic] in that part of Great-Britain call'd Scotland ....
[Edinburgh? : s.n.,
1720?]
Text of a petition made by representatives of the linen industry in Scotland to the Board of Trade in London in 1719, asking them not to yield to the request of the London weavers to prohibit and discourage the purchase of Scottish linen in England, and asking also for the removal of duty charged on printed Scottish linen.
The postscript to the petition suggests drawing up a paper "The case of the Scots linnen manufacturers" to be printed and presented to members of both Houses of Parliament. "The true case of the Scots linnen manufacture" was indeed printed (ESTC T18226) in 1720(?)
Caption title.
ESTC
Linen industry
Scotland Edinburgh.