PETITIONING FOR PARLIAMENTARY REFORM
[Drop-head title:] The resolutions and petition of the Freeholders, Householders and Inhabitants of the City of Bath and its Vicinity, Unanimously passed at a numerous Meeting, convened by public Advertisement, and held in the Orange-Grove, on Monday, January the 6th, 1817.
Bath.
Printed by John Browne, [1817].
Dimensions 510 x 390 mm.
Single sheet, printed on both sides in triple columns. Several old horizontal and vertical folds, later paper trip pasted to head, a trifle dust-soiled.
An apparently unrecorded Regency broadsheet detailing the resolutions of a public rally held at Bath on 6th January, 1817, conducted by radical Henry Hunt (1773-1835).
Between 12,00 and 15,00 inhabitants of the city attended the meeting at Bath Abbey orange grove.
In the Bath petition, Hunt denounced the granting of sinecures as a wanton waste of public funds; singling out John Jeffreys Pratt, first marquess Camden (1759-1840), recorder of the city of Bath, who, as teller of the exchequer alone, received £23,000 per annum.
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 32012
Between 12,00 and 15,00 inhabitants of the city attended the meeting at Bath Abbey orange grove.
In the Bath petition, Hunt denounced the granting of sinecures as a wanton waste of public funds; singling out John Jeffreys Pratt, first marquess Camden (1759-1840), recorder of the city of Bath, who, as teller of the exchequer alone, received £23,000 per annum.
