Alarm to the housholders and heritors of the city of Edinburgh: : in copies of proposals sent off by some in the city, for procuring an Act of Parliament, to impose a poors-rate thereon, and of a letter by one of the said housholders and heritors, to a friend at London, containing observations upon, and objections against, said proposals..
Home, John,1722-1808.
Perth, John David Drummond,Earl of,1907-2002,former owner.StEdNL RB.s.2315(3)
Paton, Robert,former owner.StEdNL RB.s.2315(3)
Edinburgh: : Printed by Thomas Lumisden and Company, and sold at their printing-house in the Fish-market.,
M.DCC.XLIX. [1749]
Attributed to John Home in NUC pre-1956.
Bound with:  A description of all the Kings of Scotland -- The army's plea for their present practice -- A particular account of the battle of Culloden.
ESTC
The recto of the front free endpaper has the bookplate 'Robert Paton / Edinburgh'. The book was previously in the library of John David Drummond, the 17th Earl of Perth.
Poor laws
Public welfare
Also available on microfilm. New Haven, Conn. :  Research Publications, Inc., 1974. Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature; reel 588, no. 8441.