Miscellaneous petitions relating to local and national matters, some drafts
- Located At: Staffordshire Record Office
- Document Reference Number: D1323/S/9/3
- Date: 1833-1892
- Level: Item
- Description: Includes petition against the Window Tax, c.1850, with copy petition from Northampton; petition against Income Tax, 1856-1857; petition in favour of public baths and washhouses legislation, n.d.; petition to assign two Justices to the Borough Commission of the Peace, 1842; petition to move the Post Office from its current small site in the Diglake [Tipping Street] next to a public house of low disposition [The Crispin] back to Market Square or similar central location, ?1843 [includes plan, signatures and seal but also annotations and corrections]; draft petition of "young freemen and burgesses" against the Disfranchisement Bill [1830s]; draft petition against Blount [sc. 1830s elections]; petition against the route of the new Manchester Cheshire & Staffordshire Railway, planned to pass over Coton Field, n.d.; petitions to the King and to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to assign two Justices to the Borough Commission of the Peace, n.d. and 1842; petition and letters re Window Tax, 1850; draft memorandum for the removal of Stafford Post Office from its site in Backwalls South [sic], to the new Guild Hall in process of erection, 1853; petition to the Queen from the "gentry, clergy, manufacturers, freemen and other inhabitants of the Borough of Stafford", requesting her to dismiss her present ministers due to the commercial distress caused by recent measures, n.d. [contains hundreds of names]; petition to the House of Commons against the proposed route of the railway through Coton Field, n.d. [sealed but without signatures]; petition to the House of Lords, and draft petition to the House of Commons against the Police Bill proposing to merge to County and Borough Police Forces, n.d.; draft petition for the unconditional extinction of the apprenticeship system in the British Colonies (that the entire apprentice population are entitled to immediate and complete emancipation"), n.d.; draft petition against the continuation of Income Tax, n.d.; petition to the House of Commons against Income Tax, n.d.; draft petition for Stafford based upon a printed petition of the Masters and Journeymen Cordwainers of the Borough of Liverpool to the House of Commons against a proposed tariff of duties relative to the importation of foreign boots and shoes, n.d.; petitions to the Houses of Lords and Commons declaring support of the Bill for Improving the Health of Towns in England, n.d.; petition to the House of Commons to postpone the hearing of the Bill Promoting the Public Health until after the Easter recess (because the new Bill is being rushed through without proper public consideration, and is imposing huge burdens and going against the rights of local self-government), n.d.; draft address to Her Majesty upon the safe return of the Prince of Wales from visiting India, 1876; printed petition to the Home Secretary to continue the Assizes at Stafford, 1892
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