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Distress over Corn Prices Stirs Liverpool Merchants in 1757
Letters from Liverpool report widespread public distress over corn prices, with merchants and inhabitants appealing to MPs Sir Ellis Cunliffe and Charles Pole to curb private interests and restore bounties. The missive cites French grinding stones and mill practices as aggravating costs, urging Parliament to act for the poor.
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C. Psilanthropos
Liverpool
Ellis Cunliffe
Charles Pole
Thongts Rabson
St. George
London
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Portsmouth
Admiral Holbourn
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Newark
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Louisbourg
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Nottingham
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Sterling Castle
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Dunkirk
Windsor
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Mary
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Virginia
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Newfoundland
Lisbon
House of Peers
William Staunton
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Edward Vernon
St. Paul's
Shadwell
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St. Leonard’s Shoreditch
James Ashwood
Bunhill Row
Arabella Hunt
Chester
William Hunt
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Nicholas Shears
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William Green
Thomas Manners
Southwell
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Richard Benham
Terence Shortney
Jarrat Lee
Thomas Warren
Wood
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