Politics and the Port of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century. The petitions of the Society of Merchant Venturers, 1698-1803
Details:
- Author(s) Minchinton, Walter E (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1963
- Pages 225pp + xxxv
- Publisher Bristol Record Society
- Place Published Bristol
Topics:
- Name Business & politics inc lobbying
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Provides transcriptions of petitions of the Society of Merchant Venturers to Parliament, 1698-1803, in which it lobbied regarding issues relating to the general trade of Bristol, notably its overseas trade, and to the port of Bristol and its infrastructure. The transcriptions take up most of the volume [pp1-189] and there is an introduction covering the Society, the petitions, the issues and the cords [pp ix-xxxv]