Decree of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (1713-1780), prohibiting price harassing of the brewers by the landlords. Published Wolfenbüttel May 12, 1745. Without place + printer (1745). 32.8 x 37.2 cm. 1 page. With large woodcut initial. With the ducal signature printed together with the L(oco) S(igilli) mark and that of A. A. v. Cramm.

It can’t be true that “the landlords in the villages claim on the brewers in the towns to deduct three to four pence of the price of each half barrel, even deduct on payment … unauthorized (and thus) reduce the beer price at their pleasure”! – The decisive passage underlined by old hand in brown ink as well as a registration mark on the back of the same year. – The stitching margin mostly torn off, besides the centre fold another not disturbing vertical one. – Broad margins, with large watermark.

On Charles, nephew of the Emperor Charles VI., brother-in-law of Frederick the Great, founder of the Collegium Carolinum, governing since 1735, see ADB XV, 266 ff.
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