Dimensions 200 x 300 mm. Single leaf. Docket title to verso. Stab-stitch holes to gutter margin. Old horizontal folds.

A concise example commercial lobbying literature, published in order to influence opinion within the House of Commons, issued in opposition to a proposed bill for lay further duties on 'mixed or compound spirits' that they suggest would 'be a great loss and prejudice to the Maltsters in general, especially to those persons making of malt in Surrey and Middlesex for the use of the brewers and private families only'. The short document implores the House to allow time, should the bill pass, for the maltsters of these two counties to dispose of their product that they might avoid ruination due to the likely decline in demand from distilleries whose production would no doubt decrease as a result of increased financial strain.

Frustratingly, this document, as is common with lobbying literature of the era, is undated. ESTC suggests 1730 as a date; but we could not locate the parliamentary proceedings (if any) to which it might relate.

ESTC records a single copy in the British Isles (Drapers' Company), and none elsewhere.