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City Creditors Petition House of Commons Committee Names
A long report lists creditors of the City for a fifty year term and a committee of four Aldermen and eight Commoners including Sir Daniel Lambert and Anthony Lucas. The group prepared a petition, read to the Court, for presentation by the Sheriffs. Royal wardrobe moves to Montague House in Buffel-street. Royal updates include Duke of Cumberland reviews and promotions in the First Regiment of Foot Guards. Multiple vessel seizures and captures in Atlantic trade are noted, along with parliamentary seats and appointments, crime reports, and local deaths. Also listed are court sessions, trials, and circuits for Lent, with various judges and bankrupts named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Daniel Lambert
Deputy Nelson
Ald. Winterbottom
Anthony Lucas
Ald. Alsop
Robert Henshaw
Ald. Tronside
James Hodges
Deputy Harrison
Benjamin Gascoyne
Deputy Sclater
Robert Wilson
Queen-street
Montague-house
Buffel-street
Henry Drax
Thomas Erle Drax
Lords
the Treasury
Nicholson
Arundel-street
Strand
Sollicitor
Admiralty
Bedford
Sterling-Castle
Chatham
Litchfield
Coventry
Pilkington
Church of Litchfield
Richard Bullock
Streatham
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Sir Edward Hawke
Bath
Leo
Spithead
East
West Indies
Ireland
Kilner
Lancaster
Barbadoes
Anglesea
Kinsale
Bowell
Cowes
Lisbon
Hope
Cariteens
Venice
Zent
Rotterdam
Brett
Achilles
Hofman
Newfoundland
Legour
Alguira
Diamond
Simkins
Burlings
Angel
Christiansand
Jacobson
Waterford
Ostend
Kent
Philadelphia
Cork
Bayonne
L’armarante
Palmere
Rochelle
St. Domingo
Gibraltar
Eagle
Maffam
Leghorn
Cranbury
Guillaume
Southampton
Bay of Biscay
Clare-Market
East Ham
Sadlee’s Wells