The noble Earl stated, that he hoped a tax which added so much to the price of a necessary of life, that was already subject to a heavy expense for carriage, would be repealed.

HL Deb 10 February 1831 vol 2 c348

For the Repeal of the Assessed Taxes, by the same noble Earl, from Slaithwaite-cum-Lingards, in the West Riding of Yorkshire:—By Lord STOURTON, from Wetherby, in Yorkshire, to the same effect.