CORN LAWS

To Henry Hungerford Holdick Hungerford, Esq.
President of the Market Harborough Agricultural Society.

SIR,--We, the undersigned Members of the above Society, request you will convene, on an early day, a Meeting of this Society, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present attempts made by the manufacturing interest and others to obtain an abolition of the Corn Laws, the propriety of petitioning Parliament thereon, and to take such other measures as may be then determined upon; and as the question is of such vital importance to the Landed Interest generally, it is requested that the Meeting may be open for the attendance of all the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the neighbourhood.

THOMAS LYNES, Oxendon, Vice-President

Robert Attenborough, Braybrooke
John Billing, Billesdon
Wright Richards, Glendon
John Chater, Great Bowden
Walter Pell, Clipston
John Wartnaby, Clipston
James Biggs, Desborough
William Cave, Desborough
George Bland, Dingley
George Billing, Galby
John Broughton, Glooston
Francis Berry, Ashby
John Goodman, Gumley
William Callis, Harrington
Samuel Sileby, Harrington
Thomas Rowlatt, Gt. Bowden
Sml. Taylor, Little Bowden
John Walton, Glooston

James Attenborough, Brampton
Joseph Weston, Brixworth
John Jerom Slater, Haslebeech
Thomas Davis Watts, Langton
George Ashton, Lubenham
William Sawyer, Lubenham
Wm. Bradshaw, Maidwell
John Lambert, Middleton
Thomas Burditt, Middleton
John Bagshaw, Newton
Thomas Burnaby, Pipwell Abbey
Thos. Lovell, Theddingworth
John Tailby, Welham
Henry Ashby, Weston

In compliance with the above requisition, a Meeting will be held at the Town Hall, Market Harborough, on TUESDAY the 12th February next, for the purposes stated in such requisition.
    H.H.H.HUNGERFORD.
Dingley Park, 23rd January, 1839

Leicester Journal: Friday 25 January 1839

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