Located AtStaffordshire Record Office
LevelItem
Doc Ref NoD(W)1778/II/254
TitleWilliam Prince Starch-maker to the Commons of Great Britain
Date[1766]
DescriptionPetition, states that starch can be made as easily from rice as from wheat, and if he could rely on encouragement being given him, he would undertake that business in the present distress from scarcity of wheat
Asks that rice imported from the American Colonies might for the term of seven years be free of duty and that rice starch might be allowed to be exported
Corrected in another hand
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