Unto the Right Honourable The Lords of Council and Session : the petition of the clerks and apprentices of writers to the Signet, and writers in Edinburgh.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL.
[Edinburgh] : Published by W. Smith, 3 Bristo Port, Edina,
[1824-1829?]
Woodcut above title.
A request for a pay rise in the form of a poem.
The petition begins: 'Humbly Sheweth,/ That your Petitioners, with much regret,/ Take up your Lordships' time their ills to state'.
First published in 1795? (shelfmark 6.692(91)
Dated from the Scottish Book Trade Index.
Provenance: Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
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