BIB_ID
407559
Accession number
MA 13765
Creator
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 7.6 x 11.6 cm
Notes
With seal.
Inscriptions/Markings
With Cobbett's autograph in ink at lower right.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Printed card to be presented at William Cobbett's Barn-Elm Farm by workers seeking employment: "If the bearere of this be an Englishman or Scotchman, able to work, and come to Barn-Elm Farm, at 7 o'clock in the morning of the 24th of December, and bring with him a sharp spade, and go to work under the orders of me, or my head man ... he shall receive five pounds of meat. He shall have, beside a corn cake and a pint of beer at noon. But, if he disobey any order given him, or is lazy, he is to receive no meat, nor any payment whatsoever.--No Irishman will be employed on any account, even if he be the bearer of this card."
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