To the Subscribers of the Intended Wind Mill at Chesterfield.

BROADSIDE. CHESTERFIELD.

Verlag: (Chesterfield?) [1796], 1796

Beschreibung

Single sheet small folio broadside; old folds, lower margin ragged. 31.5 x 19cm. Not in ESTC and apparently unrecorded. Signed 'Yours, the Master of a Sick Club. February 17, 1796', this appeal is addressed to the projectors of a scheme to erect a windmill at Chesterfield, who had 'not properly considered the Business, and procured the best Information'. Among the objections are that there were already several windmills in the vicinity, as well as many of the more efficient watermills, while the 'New Steam Mill' could be contracted to grind grain at 'a reasonable price', saving the considerable investment required to establish the proposed windmill. 'As to making of Oat Meal, it is obvious it must be a losing concern', and it was inappropriate to divert the subscriptions of the town's various clubs to such ventures: 'Upon the whole, Sick Clubs were instituted for the support of their Members when Sick or Lame, and for their decent interment when dead, and not to squander their Money in foolish projects, or to exclude any Member who shall refuse to subscribe additionally thereto'. It was presumably printed locally, at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, in February 1796. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 85199

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Titel: To the Subscribers of the Intended Wind Mill...

Verlag: (Chesterfield?) [1796]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1796

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers