Message from Boston House to Governor over consent to agents
The Boston Gazette reports the House of Representatives complains the Governor withholds consent to their grants and to Benjamin Franklin as their agent to the British Crown. The Governor replies that he will not tolerate public charges against royal authority and will prevent further proceedings that undermine the Crown and Parliament.
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Boston
New-England
House of Representatives
Council
Great Britain
Benjamin Franklin
American Department
T. Hurcarnson
Outward bound ships fail to sail as fleets pass at Gravesend and Dover
Several ships including the Diana Cobb for Lifhés Success Dunit and Britannia Richards for Dublin fail to depart this morning. Arrivals are logged at Falmouth Dover Cowes Bristol Jamaica and Dublin with vessels such as Dimsdale Jones from Zante Sally Richards from Valencia Elizabeth Kelly from Oporto Drake Powell from London and Jamaica Watson from Bristol among others.
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S&s
S.S.E
Diana
Cobb
Success
Dunit
Britannia
Richards
Dublin
His
Scarborough
Duke of Kingston East Indiaman
India
Gravesend
Sophia
Carter
Piscataqua
John
Elizabeth
Covell
Rotterdam
Sinclair
Lisbon
Adventure
Turtle
Bridport
White
Guernsey
David
Norway
Bell
Streights
William
Thompson
Virginias
Falmouth
Dimsdale
Jones
Zante
Patrick
Murphy
Sally
Valencia
Dover
Kelly
Oporto
Cowes
Mary
Blake
Waterford
Bristol
Drake
Powell
London
Watson
Henrietta Packet
Bastable
Corkeoe
Jamaica
Polly
Phillips
Annebeiel
House of Commons Adjourns Amid Lottery Controversy
May 26 session records the Speaker in the chair, money for retrial of Sir Joseph Jekyll, bills filled and reported, Ways and Means loans discussed, West India loan bill passed to Lords, and debate on lottery ticket subscription with objection to rapid distribution favoring brokers and Jews.
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Howse
Commons
Taupspar
House of Commons
House
William D
Joseph, Jekyll
West India
Joan
N—th’s
M—tyn
S—bridge
Arole
Gentileman
D—rter
C. F
D<ning
Geo. Svile
Eeekare Asseney
Gillals
Debates on Quebec Bill and partiality in subscriptions
Paragraphs detail claims of bias in subscriber lists, bank clerks altering names, and various MPs defending or attacking a Quebec government bill. Debates cover privileges, religion, and governance in conquered Canada, with speeches by Lord North, Daring, Serjeant Gnn, and others. Lord Chatham’s frailty noted amid long session wrap.
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Clark
William E—er
Soamer
P—cot
N—th
James L
Quebec
Lord Noth
House of Lords
Commons
King
D—ning
Canada
Ireland
Wales
Tor.g
C. F
Marriages and Obituaries from an 18th Century Notice
Fragmented notices report marriages between Cockburn and Miss Dranie at Limehouse and Lingoln's Inn, with Edmond Calamy and Miss Pope pairing at Charterhouse Square. An obituary notes the death of Lady Ryder in Aix, Sir John Fielding's widow at Hampstead, and John Zafar, a Jamaica-born young gentleman, aged 25.
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Cockburys Eden
Join. Cockburn
Ayl Fterday
Daniel Taylor
Peacock Inn
Boston
County of
Lincoln
L.shore
Groend
Wybarton
John
Gookman
Tommoh
Ios
Oma
Ana
Mesiis
Tell
Battorneton
Mr'Kalham
Hattore Garden
Gwynne
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North America
Lord Chatham
Suffolk
Femple
House of Peers
Paris
St. Denis
Orleans and
Nivernois
de Maurepas
de Muy
India-house
Royal
Kerr
China
St. Helena
Thomas, Reed
Court of King’s Bench
Lord Mansfield
Foote
Roig
King’s Bench
Westminster-hall
A. Verdic
Ross
James Dayifan
Bridges-street
Westminster
Bank of England
Robert Lewin
Montgomery
Mysef
Bryngwyn
Fohn
H.N.S
Robinhood’s Bay
Yorkshire
Mariner
Mary Gill
Staithes
Whitby
Mary Bellamy
Neveman-street
Oxford-road
Bellamy
Manston-house
Pomfret
New North-street
Redlion-square
Broadsworth
Doncaster
Dunhill
Keer
Stockport
Cheshire
James Thomson
Newton
Folkingham
Sleaford
Grantham
Daniel Douglas
Falkingham
Elgar
Robert Kelham
Hatton-garden
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