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[004519] [Supply of Bread]; Ticehurst, Frederic. At a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of the Borough of Hastings, Held at the Town Hall, on Friday the 28th May, 1847, Pursuant to Due Notice Given Thereof, “To Consider if Any and What Precautionary Measures Can be Adopted” Etc. Etc. Hastings: Ransom [Printer], 1847. First Edition. Folio. Unbound. Broadside. Good+. Single sided broadside, approximately 250mm x 375mm in size

Minor creasing, very lightly browned, but generally quite bright and clean

The full title is “At a public meeting of the Inhabitants of the Borough of Hastings, held at the Town Hall, on Friday, the 28th May, 1847, pursuant to due notice given thereof, “To consider if any and what precautionary measures can be adopted for mitigating the pressure of the impending dearth, especially in reference to our poorer neighbours, and to give general circulation to the measures to be then agreed upon”

Printed by [William] Ransom of Hastings (see BBTI)

Addressing the shortage of bread-corn in 1847, with the mayor encouraging the “discontinuance of the use of pastry and flour in any form where it is not used to the greatest advantage”. There had been a series of poor harvests across Europe in the 1840’s, this coupled with the potato blight (catastrophic of course in Ireland) led to food shortages and famine

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