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    The Cider Bill of 1763 was a proposed measure by the British government of Lord Bute to put a tax on the production of cider. Britain's national debt had...
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    nickname of "gentle shepherd" was given him because he bored the House by asking over and over again, during the debate on the Cider Bill of 1763, that somebody...
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    Semayne's case (category Court of King's Bench (England) cases)
    of "an Englishman's home is his castle" became very popular, with William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham famously speaking against the Cider Bill of 1763 by...
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    Velters Cornewall (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
    chair a Committee of the Whole House to look into the matter. Cornewall spoke on several occasions in opposition to the Cider Bill of 1763. This stand was...
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    grateful to Pitt for opposing a ten shilling tax on a hogshead of cider (1763 Cider Bill), which would have affected his business, so on his death he left...
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    Bute ministry (category 1763 disestablishments in Great Britain)
    p. 44). Great Britain in the Seven Years' War Cider Bill of 1763 Browning, Reed (1975). The Duke of Newcastle. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300017465...
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  • Minister following the resignation of the Earl of Bute; he continues to push through Bute's unpopular Cider Bill to impose a tax on the drink. 7 May...
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    Quebec (redirect from Province of Quebec)
    the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada...
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    Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of Great Britain)
    1781) was an English politician and rake, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of the Hellfire Club. Dashwood was born in Great Marlborough...
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    having raised a tax on cider which caused near-riots). Dashwood now sat in the House of Lords after taking up the title of Baron Le Despencer after...
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    whiskey bottles. Cider was the favored beverage of many farmers and tradesmen, and Whigs claimed that Harrison preferred that drink of the common man....
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    his subsequent conduct. In 1763, he spoke against the unpopular tax on cider, imposed by his brother-in-law, George Grenville, and his opposition, although...
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    addition to Europe. After being defeated in 1763 in the Seven Years' War, France ceded its territory east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain. Thereafter...
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    taxes in Britain was out of the question, since there had been virulent protests in England against the Bute ministry's 1763 cider tax, with Bute being hanged...
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  • Thomas Alcock (priest) (category Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford)
    Better Maintenance of the Poor (1752) Observations on that Part of the Late Act of Parliament which Lays an Additional Duty on Cider (1763) Cursory Remarks...
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    list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland for the years from 1751 to 1800. See also the list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland to 1700 and List of acts...
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    Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable...
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    sixth session of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 11 November 1766 until 2 July 1767. Samuel Dashwood's Estate Act 1763 (3 Geo. 3. c...
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    second session of the 12th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 25 November 1762 until 19 April 1763. This was the Treaty of Paris (1763). Egham and...
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    sides selling hard cider. At this point, the detachment of regulars sent to Barrett's farm marched back from their fruitless search of that area. They passed...
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    extending from Vernon to Osoyoos at the United States border, is one of several wine and cider-producing regions in Canada. Other wine regions in British Columbia...
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    notably at Christmas. Game poaching supplemented the diet of the rural poor. Everyone drank ale or cider as water was often too impure to drink. Fruits and vegetables...
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    River Wye (category Lists of coordinates)
    despite the risks of navigating such a river, it has been used since Roman times to transport coal from the Forest of Dean, cider from Hereford, together...
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    After the accession of George III Hardwicke opposed the ministry of Lord Bute on the peace with France in 1762, and on the cider tax in the following...
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    Blue Amberol Records was the trademark for a type of cylinder recording manufactured by the Edison Records company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made...
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  • with the political questions of the day. One exception to this was with the public hostility to Dashwood cider excise in 1763 when Lord Egremont begged Talbot...
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    held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The crisis damaged the credibility of the second Major ministry in handling of economic matters...
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  • Present. State of Maine. Retrieved July 8, 2022. The manufacture of intoxicating liquors, not including cider, and the sale and keeping for sale of intoxicating...
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    May 2021. 2d, 4d issued since 1347 Snelling, Thomas (1763). A View Of The Gold Coin And Coinage Of England: From Henry The Third To the Present Time. Consider'd...
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  • specially commissioned still drawing. Billed as 'Summer Jackanory' Viewers' Writing Competition Winners Billed as the 1000th aired episode which included...
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