Petition against bill regarding loss of ancestral rights and legislative grants
- Item sets
- Sources
- Name
- Petition against bill regarding loss of ancestral rights and legislative grants
- Description
- This is a petition (likely to Parliament) from proprietors objecting to a bill that would rescind their long-exercised legislative rights and grants. The petitioners argue that Parliament previously recognized their patent rights and seek compensation for the loss of privileges that have been held since their ancestors' time, requesting to be heard by counsel against the bill.
- Archive / Repository
- md:20260219_101302.md
- img:20260219_101302.jpg
- Type
- Petition
- Audience
- House (Parliament)
- Provenance
- Fragment of a larger document; shows page 6 of a longer text. Text uses period typography and long 's' (ſ) characters typical of 18th-century printing.
- Language
- English