Bread - Early works to 1800

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Scarcity of bread . A plan for reducing the high price of this article, in a letter addressed by William Frend, to William Devaynes, Esq. Chairman of the Meeting at the London Tavern July 14, to consider of the present high price of Provisions.
William FrendDate: [1795]
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A charitable morsel of unleavened bread , for the author of a letter to The Rev. William Romaine; entitled, Gideon's cake of barley meal: being a reply to that pamphlet.
Parker, David, fl. 1793.Date: 1793
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A letter on occasion of the public enquiry concerning the most fit and proper bread to be assized for general use: Shewing the Difficulty of executing the Act of the 31st Geo. II. in a beneficial manner to the Poor; the constant Usage and Custom with regard to Bread for many Centuries; the folly of eating Bread known to be made white by Art and Adulteration, and the great Advantages of eating pure Bread made of all the Flour, including the Heart of the Wheat, as the most salutary, agreeable and nutritive Aliment. Recommended as an Object of a very serious and important Nature. By an advocate for public welfare
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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An appeal to a humane public for the poorer millers and bakers, respecting the high price of bread and the injury sustained by them erom [sic] the establishment of the London Flour, Meal & Bread Company. ... By an attentive observer.
Attentive observerDate: [1800?]
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A copy of the report of an essay of bread made in the year 1669, by order of the then Court of Aldermen . With some remarks, which were made on passing the Act of 31st of George II. entitled, An act for the due making of bread, and to regulate the price and assize thereof &c. Which shew, that the said essay was not made according to the then bread-table. With a Comparison of that Table with the Tables of the 8th of Anne and 31 George II. To which is added, an appendix, by Way of Attempt to explain the Table in the said Statute of 51st of Henry III.
Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLVIII. [1758]