Stewards Report of 1756 Feast for the Clergy in London
The stewards headed by the Right Rev Bishop of Peterborough and several D D clergy report the 9891 pounds 13 shillings 3 pence raised at rehearsals and feast at St Pauls and Merchant Taylor Hall was distributed to a long list of tradespeople and tradeswomen across England and Wales for services from mantua makers to gown makers milliners and a grocer noting payments to Sarah Dorling Frances Williams Mary Lea Catherina Lea and many others with sums varied and deliveries spanning London Worcester Shrewsbury Exeter and Chester among others.
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Sarah Dorling
Frances Williams
Bishopsgate Street
London
Mary Lea
S4ary Lea
Hallsowen
Salop
Om Catherina Lea
Margaret Lea
Stowerbridge
Worcestershire
Ann Billington
Sarah Hunt
Exeter
A Joseph Potts
John Bracegirdle
Manchester
Jesebh Taylor
John Seaborne
Hereford
William Wright
William Wylde
Francis Cookson
John Barnet
Middleham
Yorkshire
Sadler
Hannah Reeve
Mary Gibbon
Colchester
Essex
Tom Frances Harton
Ann Shuker
Shrewsbury
Daniel Brocklebanke
Joseph White
Whitehaven
Lucy Chappell
Mary Lewis
St. Martin’s In the Fields
Middlesex
Mary Williams
John Edwards
Llanenghenedle
Anglesea
Elizabeth Tanner
Elizabeth Boyce
Oakham
Rutland
Alice Dalgress
Elizabeth Prait
Petworth
Sussex
Mary Wilmot
Hannah Moreton
Worcester
Dorothy Verty
Liddle and
Makepeace
Newcastle
Honiton
Devonshire
Esther Moore
Katherine Boulton
St. Clement’s Danes
Hannah Froome
Devon
Elizabeth Borchi
Elizabeth Heyliger
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Elizabeth Wheeler
Ann Orpin
The
Strand
Mary Ramsey
Jane Robin
St. Martin’s
William Shaw
Thomas Shaw
Richard Baie
William Dawes
Isaac Metcalfe
Hawes
Regiment movements and European war rumors in April dispatches
Letters from Holland and Petersburgh report fleets fitted at Cronstadt ready to sail, with thirty ships including frigates and bomb vessels. Dispatches from Hamburg, Hanover, and various German states describe Prussian regiments marching, Hessian troops joining, and Duke of Cumberland moving toward Weser. Reports mention French plans to attack East Frizeland Bremien Verden, and a projected trial of the King of Prussia by the Austrian imperial council.
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Holland
Petersburgh
Cronstadt
Revel
Riga
Count Apraxin
Courland
Hambourg
Duke of Cumberland
Stade
Hanover
Weser
East Frizeland
Bremien
Verden
Hamelen
Wesel
Sporcke
Brunswick
Wolfenbuttle
Saxe Gotha
Bohemia
Egra
D’etrees
Rhine
Maeze
Gueldres
Empire
Prussia
Fragments on Empire Ban and Dublin Freedom Granted
Fragmented notices describe a sovereign summoned by the Elector of Brandenburg being placed under the Empire’s ban, with loss of rights. Vienna negotiates a one million florin loan via Cardinal Cor fini in Rome. Brest reports twelve armed ships joining Foligny's squadron. Dublin’s Common Council to vote the Freedom of the City in favor of William Pitt in gold box.
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Prussia
Brest
St. Malo
M. de Foligny
Ireland
Dublin
Common Council of
London
William Pitt
Freedom of the City presented to Pitt and Legge in Bath
A Bath letter reports Edward Collibee mayor presiding as a motion to present Pitt and Legge with gold boxes, in token of patriot zeal. Citizens meet at the Bear to toast the two men. Exeter market scenes describe price turmoil with mobs, wives, and force threats, yet corn remains plentiful. Norwich reports Charles Parr jailed for aiding murder, and French prisoners escape confinement via window rope, quickly recaptured.
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Country News
Bath
Edward Collibee
Allen
Pitt
Legge
Mr. Allen
Exeter
St. Sidwell’s
America
Norwich
BR. Browne
Charles Parr
Robert Sillys
Jerry Warns
Merit and Political Intrigue in Tudor Times
London narrative recalls Merit delivering state seals to Lord Keeper Bacon and the Treasurer’s Staff to Lord Burleigh while Walsingham receives the Peace. The piece links these acts to tumultuous times, with Intrigue as a possible descendant of Merit, and notes shifts of power among Clarendon Shaftsbury Clifford and Buckingham.
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London
Merit
Bacon
Lord Burleigh
Walsingham
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Peterborough
John Waugh
Robert Parker
Philip Yonge
Thomas Church
Erafraus Saunders
Samuel Nicolls
William Lowther
Bart
Thomas Foljambe
E Q. Shute Adams
Thomas Kilner
William Sharpe
St. Paul’s
Merchant-Taylor’s Hall
Ners