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1779 Conciliatory Bill Offering American Colonies Dominion Status to Congress

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1779 Conciliatory Bill Offering American Colonies Dominion Status to Congress
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American Revolution
Britain’s Conciliatory Bill Offering the American Colonies "Dominion" Status & Repealing All Revenue Bills Dating Back To 1763
1779-Dated Revolutionary War, Printed Booklet Titled, “Considerations on the Present State of Public Affairs, and the Means of Raising the Necessary Supplies” by William Pulteney, Esq., Choice Very Fine.
This scarce Booklet has 51 pages, measures 5.25” x 8.25”, disbound, second edition, published in the same year of 1779 as the first. "Concerns the 'Conciliatory Bill' and the commissioners sent to America" - Adams. The Conciliatory Bill was an attempt by Britain to nip the Revolution in its early stages by repealing all revenue bills dating back to 1763. This proposal and concept was rejected by the Continental Congress. In light of this and the recent American treaty with France, Pulteney argues that Great Britain must continue to fight against the forces of the colonies and France, or lose its other colonies in North America. Little to no wear to disbound section, with leather remnants on spine, internally good with very light tone, signature of Osborne Wight on its title and some hand pagination are the only marks. Rare.
The son of Moses Wight (chaplain of the Bridewell Hospital, died 1795), Osborne Wight was a clergyman and Fellow of New College, Oxford. He was instituted to the vicarage of Condover on Feb. 26, 1782, contributed several tunes to William Dechair Tattersall's Improved Psalmody (1794), and left a collection of manuscript music to the Bodleian Library.