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Parliament Seals Fees and Committees in Early 1703 Session
A lengthy notice lists proposed bills and actions from the session including navigation for the River, repair of Yarmouth Pier, highways in Essex, levies for exports, penalties for vagrants, Malted Corm consumption, discouraging French brandy, duties on a new way in Chancery Lane, extending the Abjuration Oath, auditing the public accounts, punishing mutineers and deserters, regulating woollen and textile abuses, raising militia for 1703, granting subsidies to the Queen, continuing army and navy accounts, stamping paper abuses, and Whitaker’s accounting. The speech from the Queen and prorogation to April 22 follow, with drums for West Indies volunteers and a burnings of The Shortest Way with the Dissenters in Newallace Yard. Advertisements for books, auctions, medical cures, and various patent remedies fill the rest of the page.