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Sender: Stroother, Thomas
Recipient: Calverley, Sir Walter
Letters: 4
Date(s): 4 Mar 1731 - 28 Mar 1734
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/1-2, 5, 8
Note: 1) On possible methods of stamping the cloth. 2) Elaborating the ideas expressed in the previous letter. 3) About several petitions that are being organised. 4) On the progress of the Bill through the Lords.
Sender: Wentworth, Sir William
Recipient: Calverley, Sir Walter
Letters: 3
Date(s): 6 Feb [1733] - 28 Mar 1741
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/4, 15, 22
Note: 1) Assuring him he will support the Cloth Bill in the House. 2) On the abuses of the present regulations, and advocating the passing of the new bill. 3) Reporting the passing of the Cloth Act.
Sender: Blackett, Sir William
Recipient: Calverley, Sir Walter
Letters: 1
Date(s): 17 Apr 1733
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/6
Note: Reporting that the Cloth Act will probably be renewed without the restraining clause.
Sender: Calverley, Sir Walter
Recipient: Wentworth, Sir William
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Feb [1734]
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/7
Note: Commenting on and opposing attempts by the clothiers to have the Act altered so that the millmen are not paid for stamping the cloth. Contemporary copy.
Sender: Calverley, Sir Walter
Recipient: Stapylton, Sir Miles
Letters: 2
Date(s): 27 Jan 1740 - 8 Mar 1740
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/12, 15
Note: 1) Suggesting that the cloth should be stamped at the mills by
the searchers. Contemporary copy. Unsigned. 2) On the abuses
of the present regulations, and advocating the passing of the
new bill.
Sender: Calverley, Sir Walter
Recipient: Stapylton, Sir Miles & Thompson, Mr
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Feb 1740
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/13
Note: Draft of a letter suggesting that the present penalties are too
high and that there should be a General Supervisor of the searchers. On verso is another draft, deleted.
Sender: Calverley, Sir Walter
Recipient: Turner, Mr
Letters: 1
Date(s): 20 Feb 1740
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/14
Note: On the opposition he faced in 1732 when he tried to bring in a bill similar to the present one. Contemporary copy.
Sender: Calverley, Sir Walter
Recipient: Hitch, Henry
Letters: 1
Date(s): 8 Mar 1740
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/15
Note: On the abuses of the present regulations, and advocating the passing of the new bill.
Sender: Nevile, Cavendish
Recipient: Calverley, Sir Walter
Letters: 2
Date(s): 21 Mar 1740 - 31 Dec 1740
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/16, 18
Note: 1) Expressing the wish that Mr Stroother had not interfered in the Cloth Bill. 2) On turnpike roads, with an abridgement of what is desired to be obtained in Parliament for continuing or amending the expiring Cloth Act.
Sender: Hitch, Henry
Recipient: Calverley, Sir Walter
Letters: 5
Date(s): 14 Mar [1741] - 26 Jul [1741]
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/20-21, 23-24, 26
Note: 1) On the progress of the Cloth Bill. 2) On the progress of the Cloth Bill. 3) Regretting that ignorance of the trade and lack of time have not allowed a better Act to be framed. 4) Hoping to obtain a better Act in a year or two. 5) Informing him of his intended visit to Bradford.
Sender: Stapylton, Sir Miles
Recipient: Calverley, Sir Walter
Letters: 1
Date(s): 24 Aug 1741
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/27
Note: On Hitch's duplicity concerning the clause which would prevent
millowners from adjudicating in disputes about cloth. Defective.