Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Alt Ref NoD(W)1778/II/1562
TitleReverend John Erskine to [Lord Dartmouth]
Date20 Oct 1775
DescriptionEdinburgh, "I lately found the enclosed inflammatory paper in a volume of Dean Young's sermons", circumstances respecting its discovery and reasons for sending it to his Lordship

Enclosure, 16 Feb 1774, a printed paper signed "A South Briton", deplores the increase of taxation during the last 84 years, denounces the measures pursued by the Governors, who, of late years, have coaxed the people to part with their money and give paper in return to keep up armies of placemen, permit men, custom house officers, pensioners and soldiers, by which their liberties are become barely nominal
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