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January 1796.
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Bread made of Wheat alone from which no more than five pounds weight
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of Bran Per Bushel is excluded And we will also (if it shall be necessary
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for the purpose of this Engagement) prohibit in our Families the use of
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Wheaten Flour in Pastry and diminish as much as possible the use
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thereof in other Articles than Bread.
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By some one or more of these Measures or by any other which may
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be found equally effectually and more expedient and practicable in our
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respective Situations we will to the utmost of our Power ensure the Reduction
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abovementioned, of at last One third of the Quantity of Wheat usually
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consumed in our Families in Ordinary Times
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This Engagement shall remain in force until Fourteen Day's
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after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament unless the
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Average price of Wheat in the whole Kingdom, shall be reduced before that
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Time to Eight shillings Per Winchester Bushel and we do earnestly.
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recommend to our fellow Subjects to adopt and strictly to adhere to the same
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Ordered - That the said Agreement be engrossed on a Roll of
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Parchment with distinction for the Counties and Places therein accor-
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-ding to the Roll for subscribing the Test - and that the Agreement be left
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at the Office of the Clerk of the Journals of this House in Order to be subscribed
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by such Members of this House as chuse to sign the same themselves
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or who shall signify their desire to any other Member of the House or to
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the Clerk of the Journals to subscribe the same for them.
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Resolutions come to by the Lords for reducing the Consumption
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of Wheat and also an Agreement entered into by them relative thereto
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Die Mercurii 16d. Decembris 1795.
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Resolutions
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Resolved Nemine Dissentiente, by the Lords Spiritual and
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Temporal in Parliament assembled that in consequence of the High price
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and deficient supply of Wheat it is expedient to adopt such Measures
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as may be practicable for diminishing the consumption thereof during
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the Continuance of the present Pressure and for introducing the use of
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such Articles as may conveniently be substituted in the place thereof
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