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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George Grenville (redirect from Premiership of George Grenville)
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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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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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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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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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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Hellfire Club (redirect from Order of the Friars of St Francis of Wycombe)
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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John Tyler (redirect from 10th President of the United States of America)
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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Stamp Act 1765 (redirect from Stamp Act of 1765)
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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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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Sir John Rushout, 4th Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
the repeal of the cider duty, despite representing a cider producing county. He became less regular in his attendance and retired on account of age at the...
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Vermont (redirect from List of regions of Vermont)
along the Atlantic coast; France was defeated in 1763 in the Seven Years' War, ceding its territory east of the Mississippi River to Britain. Thereafter,...
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Industrial Revolution (redirect from Age of Industry)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Black Wednesday (redirect from List of Black Wednesdays)
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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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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specially commissioned still drawing. Billed as 'Summer Jackanory' Viewers' Writing Competition Winners Billed as the 1000th aired episode which included...
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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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Pound sterling (redirect from Currency of the United Kingdom)
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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