By His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, knight of the most honourable Order of Bath, lieutenant general of his Majesty's forces, &c. Proclamation.

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Title: By His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, knight of the most honourable Order of Bath, lieutenant general of his Majesty's forces, &c. Proclamation: Whereas it is consonant not only to the common principles of humanity ... to guard against the the extortion of individuals, who raise the necessaries of life
Creator / Contributor: Great Britain
Army.
Basted Mill (Wrotham, England)
Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
depositor.
Clinton, Henry
1738?-1795
Rivington, James
1724-1802
Taylor, John
References: Bristol
Date: [1777]
1777
Date of original: 1775-1783
Subject: Grain
Prices
Law and legislation
Politics and government
Subject geographic name: New York (State)
Material type or medium of original: Proclamations.
Water-marks.
Damaged types (Printing)
Place: New York]
Publisher: Printed by James Rivington, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
Physical Description: 1 sheet ([1] p.): coat of arms ; 40 x 30 cm.
Notes: Royal arms at head of title.
Concerns the price of grain in New York.
Dated: Given under my hand at the city of New-York, the 20th day of December, 1777, in the eighteenth year of his Majesty's reign.
Signed: Henry Clinton, Lieut. Gen.
Type ornament band.
Watermarks: [Britannia] J Taylor.
Library copy imperfect: fragments brought together and silked; some text affected.
Wood-block cracked through lion.
Library copy stamped on back: Tomlinson collection--Deposited by Mercantile Library Association.