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Historic Petition List from Staffordshire and Nearby Boroughs
A long record lists numerous towns and counties including Wetton-Baffet Taunton Dunwich Minehead Iveichefer Tamworth Malmesbury St Abans Lyme- Regis Hereford Whitchurch Caln Cricklade Steyning Grimsby Shrewsbury Wells Bramber Northampton Westbury Edinburgh Reading Bridport Wareham Coventry Maiden Shafton Ryegate Chester Leominster Boston Colchester Abingdon Gloucester Bristol Newburgh Beaumarts Ludgershall Radnor Clitherow Litchfield Leffwithiel Callington Wenlock Bodmyn Stirling Mawes Truro Dorchester Sanquhar Dumfress Kirkudbright Annan Lochmaben Bishop's Castle St Ives Arglesey Durham Linlithgow Lanerk Selkirk Peebles Inverness Nairn Forres Fortrose Inverbervie Aberdeen Montrose Br chen Aberbrothick Linlithgow Forfar Perth Dundee St Andrews Goupar Dumbarton Lanark Brecon Carmarthen Chipping-Wicomb Ross Sutherland Carnarvon Denbigh Leicester Berks Orford Queenborough Lauder Haddingtoun Dunbar North Berwick Liverpoole Renfrew Kirkwall Tain Dingwall Dornock Wick Walingford Oxford Macoby Orkney Carlisle Bedwyn Banbury Middlesex Preston St Edmunds Bury Brecon Christ Church Twineham Werminter. The Matter of some of these Petitions was immediately determin'd, others ordered to be heard at the Bar, and most referred to the Grand Committee of Privileges and Elections. On Oct 19 the Commons considered the King's Speech and a Supply motion was referred to the Grand Committee on Oct 22, where it unanimously carried.