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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: 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: [unknown]
Letters: 2
Date(s): [c. 1740 ?]
Location: SC Calverley Papers: MS 301/31, 33
Note: 1) About the abuses of the present system of stamping cloth. 2) About the opinion of the merchants on stamping the cloth. Defective.
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.