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Livery Hall meeting and Portsmouth royal visit details
A 1773 report describes a Common Hall at Guildhall for sheriffs and city officers, the Recorder's rulings, and the Livery's praise. It notes elections, bills passed in the Lords, royal Portsmouth visit, and remarks on hospitality, lodging prices, and crowd behavior, with letters from officials and local notices.
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Guildhall
Recorder
Allen
Commonhall
Capt. Allen
Alderman Plomer
Stephen Sayre
Nicholson
Piper
Trown
Plomer
Sayre
Quebec
House of Lords
House of Peers
Secretary of State
Versailles
Portsmouth
Port Aorth
Lord Sandwich
Godalming
George
Snelling
God
Purbee
Peter Taylor
Pertidown-hill
Wight
Petersfield
Ripley
Peersfield
Lord North
Lord Dartmouth
Devonshire
Leinster
Chandos
Richmond
Marquis of
Kildare
Townshend
Palmerston
Despenser
Gower
Hertford
Upper Offory
George Lenox
Admiralty
Barfleur
Kew
St. James’s
Kingston
Elliot
Committee of the
Free, Burgesses
Newcastle Upon ‘Tyne
Grieve
Serjeant Glynn
Recorder of
London
Bulgaria
Moldavia
Wallachia
Oczakov
Constantinople
Curacoa
West Indies
Cape Fear
North Carolina
Liverpool
Maryland
Philadelphia
Ireland
Kensington
Birmingham
Sir John Fielding
Trotter
Bradfield
Sheffield
Riverhead
Mils
Bishopshourn
Backhouse
Fowell
Mills Susan Alkin
Thomas Alkin
Leeds
Timothy Scholfield
Horbury
Ely
Mr. Hirst
Mirfield
Howden-pans
Northumberland
Laft
Stainland
Halifax
Clegg
Robert Routh
Christopher Routh