Caption Title Observations Case Working (1 results)

[1]ff. Single sheet. Docket title to verso. Disbound, with chipping at gutter and extremities, old folds, slightly browned to extremities. Ink and wax crayon numerals to head of sheet. An early example of Parliamentary lobbying literature, published in small numbers for distribution to Members of Parliament in order to influence opinion in the run up to debates and divisions, refuting the Case of the Working Coopers to the Distillers around London in their complaints that 'laying a Duty upon Compound Waters or Spirits' (undated but presumably relating to the Gin Act of 1736) would reduce them to 'very calamitous Circumstances'. Referencing the Coopers arguments against the Bill (separately published as ESTC N6066), this refutation notes not only that 'the Consumption of Cask by the Brewers, and the Demand of Coopers Work for Merchants and Shipping is so great, that there are scarce Coopers enough to supply those Branches of the Trade', but also that 'the making the Cask for the Distillers is not so great a Part of the Coopers Business as is pretended'. This document goes further still by making reference to the 'Malt-Distillers' practice of never buying 'any new Cask, but make use of old Wine-Pipes which are made abroad'. Rare; ESTC locates a single copy, at California State. ESTC N6065. Size: Folio.