| Description | Bushey Park, "I take the liberty of enclosing for your consideration, a copy of a very extraordinary and rather captious letter" "I have desired a cabinet to be called"
Enclosure, the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Rockingham, the Earl of Bessborough, Lords Milton and Upper Ossory to Lord North, it is publicly reported that \ project has been communicated to the King's Ministers, for proposing to the Parliament of Ireland a tax of regulation, which is particularly and exclusively to affect the property of those of his Majesty's subjects, who possess lands in that kingdom, but whose ordinary residence is in this, it is in the same manner publicly understood, that this extraordinary design has been encouraged by an assurance from the Administration, that if the heads of a bill, proposing such a tax, should be transmitted from ireland, they would be returned with the sanction of his Majesty's Privy Council here, under the great seal of England
For full description see HMC 15th Report Appendix 1 |