1783 Revolutionary War era London ENGLAND newspaper with RED HALFPENNY TAX STAMP

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1783 Revolutionary War era London ENGLAND newspaper with RED HALFPENNY TAX STAMP
1783 Revolutionary War era London ENGLAND newspaper with a RED HALFPENNY TAX STAMP on the front page
- inv # 7R-233
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
London Gazette
(ENGLAND) dated March 25, 1783.
This newspaper has a front page
RED TAX STAMP
, similar to the ones that were objected to by the American Colonies during the
STAMP ACT PROTESTS
. These tax stamps, as is present on this newspaper, were a factor in bringing on the American Revolutionary War !!
The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper title and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the UK, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as The Oxford Gazette.
This newspaper has 4 pages with a page size of  12.5" x 9".
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies carry a tax stamp. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America following the British victory in the Seven Years' War. The British government felt that the colonies were the primary beneficiaries of this military presence, and should pay at least a portion of the expense.
The Stamp Act met with great resistance in the colonies. It was seen as a violation of the right of Englishmen to be taxed only with their consent
—consent which could only be granted through their colonial legislatures. Colonial assemblies sent petitions of protests, and the Stamp Act Congress, reflecting the first significant joint colonial response to any British measure, also petitioned Parliament and the king. Local protest groups, led by colonial merchants and landowners, established connections through correspondence that created a loose coalition that extended from New England to Georgia. Protests and demonstrations initiated by to Sons of Liberty often turned violent and destructive as the masses became involved. Very soon all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively collected.
Opposition to the Stamp Act was not limited to the colonies. British merchants and manufacturers, whose exports to the colonies were threatened by colonial economic problems exacerbated by the tax, also pressured Parliament. The Act was repealed on 18 March 1766 as a matter of expedience, but Parliament affirmed its power to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" by also passing the Declaratory Act. This incident increased the colonists' concerns about the intent of the British Parliament and added fuel to the growing movement that became the American Revolution.
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the UK, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper and the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United Kingdom, having been first published on 7 November 1665 as the Oxford Gazette.
The London Gazette was first published as the Oxford Gazette on 7 November 1665. Charles II and the Royal Court had moved to Oxford to escape the Great Plague of London, and courtiers were unwilling to touch, let alone read, London newspapers for fear of contagion. The Gazette was "Published by Authority" by Henry Muddiman, and its first publication is noted by Samuel Pepys in his diary. The King returned to London as the plague dissipated, and the Gazette moved too, with the first issue of the London Gazette (labelled No. 24) being published on 5 February 1666.
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