Bread Scarcity Sparks Public Debate and Riots Across Town
A Richmond Yorkshire letter describes rioters from Atking Bolton and Swaledale seizing grain and setting prices. The piece condemns monopolists, calls for Bread plentitude, and notes a Court Martial list and naval movements from Spithead and Portsmouth as Britain faces scarcity and unrest.
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Buck Lodge
Liverpool
The
Marine Society
E.C
Richmond
Yorkshire
Atking
Bolton
Redmar
Wemblydale
Swaledale
Gool
P.S
Commonwealth
Beary Holmes
Alexander Dury
Hedworth Lambton
John Mortyn
Edward Carr
William Kingsley
Alexander Durore
Bennet Noel
Fragmented Passionate Threats and a London Bread Assize
Fragmentary text shows an attempted assault, with a Coach intervening and villains escaping. The page also lists diseases and casualties for the week, burials totals, and the December bread assize notice. It records bread prices, stock figures, and bank annuities, then notes two volumes published this day including Roger and his Son Joy and an English translation of natural philosophy lectures.
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Forbay
Portsmouthuis
Peterson
Marseilles
Havre de Grace
Bristol
Wiltshire
Smith
Bayonne
Deptford
London
Cork
Cape Finisterre
Louisbourg
Toulon
Bret
Plymouth
North Amenea
Aberdeen
Peggy
Eastwood
Helen
Bamff
John Duffus
Buchanness
Dunkirk
Jean Antoine Vaillant
Duffus
Buchan
Firth
Mermaid
Bumstead
Lapwing
Whealey
Prole
Lisbon
Duke
Dillon
West Indies
Halifax
Rand
New York
Sweden
Great Britain
Ferdinand of Brunswick
Amsterdam
Great Seal
Robert Bird
Andover
Hampshire
High Court of Chancery
William Ford
Oswestry
John Collings
Great- Bond-Steet
James Bryant
Dulverton
Somersetshire
Post Office
Lombard Street
Baily
Mr. Collings
Fen
Bishopsgate Church
Walthamstow
Jemmy
Sunis
Lanl
Ireland
Maor
Cry of
Wheaton
Uit Sul
Lidia
Gorhalf
Joy
J. Scott
Black Swan
Parer Noster
Edison
University of Oxford
Anne Dom
Anne Dom. 1700. To Which Are Added. the Demonstrations of Monf. Huy~geris
European War News from Holland to Paris Nov 30
Letters and dispatches detail troop movements around Breslau and Stade, with Prussian, Hanoverian, Hessian, and Imperial forces converging. Reports note French detachments, Richelieu’s strategic redeployments, and efforts by Lynar and the Danish court to avert extremities as tensions rise across the Empire.
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Holland
Dantzick
Empire
Ukrain
Choczim
Ratifoon
Aulic Council
Prussia
Duke of Bevern
Breslau
Utrecht
Stade
Ferdinand of Brunswick
Magdenburgh
Siace
Marshal Richelieu
Prince de Soubize
Zeil
Lunenburgh
Elb
Barons de Munchausen
Count de Lynar
Denmark
Boxtehude
Paris
Marshal Richeli
Prince of Turenne
Bouillon
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Portsmouth
Spithead
Gibraltar
France
Chichester
Willett
M‘cartney
Sheerness
Louisburgh
John Keill
John Rivington
S. Paul's Churchyard
Joseph Richardson
T. Longman
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