On Monday last, at a meeting of the Common-Council of this city, the right honourable the Lord Mayor was pleas'd to introduce the business of the day in the following words: Gentlemen, there is a bill depending in the House of Commons ... laying an inland duty on tobacco ...
City of London (England).Corporation.Court of Common Council.
[London : s.n.,
1733]
Concerns a bill depending to levy a tax on tobacco, and includes the text of a petition that the meeting unanimously agreed to, "To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled".
Dated at head: Wednesday, April 11.
Two editions with the same text but completely different setting are known; the other edition (ESTC T179593) has the date at head as "Wednesday, April 11, 1733.".
ESTC
Crawford, J.L.L. Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Catalogue of English broadsides,
Tobacco
England London.