Beschreibung:

Bristol Innkeepers' Broadside. Bristol, January 4, 1793. At a very Numerous and Most Respectable Meeting held this Day, in the One Hundred and Fourth Year of British Liberty, At the Bush-Tavern, of the Inn-Keepers, Vintners, and Victuallers, of this City, Mr. John Weeks in the Chair, printed by J. Rudhall, Small-Street, [Bristol, 1793], printed broadside on laid paper with header above two columns, being a pledge to support the Royal House of Brunswick and the present government, the text below the header continues, 'Resolved Unanimously: That in order to shew our Loyalty to the King, and our attachment to our present Excellent constitution, we will suffer no Person or Persons to hold any Society in our respective Houses, or make Use of any Language that tends to subvert the Government of this Kingdom, without giving immediate Notice to our worthy Mayor and Magistrates of this City', and to 'suppress any inflammatory writing that the factious Revolutionists may dare to issue', including an abstract from the 'Commentaries of the learned Mr. Justice Blackstone', concluding at the bottom, 'The above resolutions were signed by six hundred and eighty, inn-keepers, vintners, victuallers, and wine-merchants', ornamental border with printer details beneath lower border, older paper with unrelated contemporary newspaper extract adhered to right column verso, 45 x 32cm (Qty: 1) ESTC T224123 locates just one copy at the British Library.