Flour industry - Great Britain
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Important considerations upon the act of the thirty-first of George II. relative to the assize of bread : wherein are introduced, several experiments that have been made on the manufacturing of wheat into bread : with the exorbitant profits made by the cornfactor, mealman, miller, and baker ; and the many abuses the public (and particularly the poor) have laboured under, since the passing of that act, and the repealing the assize table in the act of Queen Anne ; --the reasons why it passed, and remedies pointed out : and which are humbly submitted to the consideration of the legislature.
Date: 1768- E-books
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Considerations on the effects which the bounties granted on exported corn , Malt, and Flour, have on the Manufactures of the Kingdom, and the true Interests of the State. With a postscript, containing Remarks on a Pamphlet lately published, intituled, Thoughts on the Causes and Consequences of the present high Price of Provisions.
Lowe, GeorgeDate: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- E-books
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Three tracts on the corn-trade and corn-laws with a report from the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to consider of the methods practised in making flour from wheat ; the prices thereof ; and how far it may be expedient to put the same again under the regulations of an Assize.
Smith, Charles, 1713-1777.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- E-books
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Humbly inscribed to Parliament . Two letters on the flour trade, and dearness of corn: wherein The former is vindicated, and the Cause of the latter explained; and the Mistakes and Misrepresentations of ignorant, and merely theoretic Writers, are confuted. By a person in business.
Person in BusinessDate: [1766]