Reasons humbly offer'd to the consideration of the honble. the knights, citizens, and burgesses of Great-Brittain in Parliament assembled, against a further duty on goats skins tann'd with shumack, after the manner of Spanish leather

Reasons humbly offer'd to prevent the making the upper part of shoes of any thing but leather, silk, satten, or velvet

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Shoe industry - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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Reasons humbly offer'd to the consideration of the honble. the knights, citizens, and burgesses of Great-Brittain in Parliament assembled, against a further duty on goats skins tann'd with shumack, after the manner of Spanish leather

Reasons humbly offer'd to prevent the making the upper part of shoes of any thing but leather, silk, satten, or velvet