Imperial politics and local unrest in a European capital
Reports from the Electoral Diet and Saxony show efforts to revive the Electorate and consider a King of the Romans. Letters mention a possible imperial decree, delays in Frankfurt, and gifts totaling 130,000 crowns to Saxony’s new sovereign family. London items note fires, ship movements, and civic elections amid wartime recovery.
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Count de Saurau
Ratifoon
Salizburgh
College of Princes
Francfort
Charles-haver
Portmouth
Hassar
Spithead
Plymouth
East-Indies
East India House
St. Thomas
Aldersgate
Jeremiah
Percy
W. Tyfer
Andrew Jordaine
George Lewis Carr
Samuel Bates
Samuel Jacom
Samuel Read
Charles Rivington
Dep
Rofe
Jeremiah Percy
Bishopstate
Richard Townsend
Goldsmith
Deputy Long
Cornhill
Shenton
Herring
Farringdon
Baughan
Snow-Hill
Hughes
Langbourn Ward
John Blakesley
Thomas Griffin
Viscount Bolingbroke
Acheme
Repeal Arguments on Cyder Duty and Street Lighting
A letter from Anglicus argues against the cider tax as unequal and impractical, urging light taxation and protection for laborers. Another contributor suggests speeding Westminster lighting reform by extending the paving and lighting commission, proposing a citywide illumination tax. A third piece spoofs street schemes and municipal plans, while a poem and satirical verses mock Turncoats and public folly in London.
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Cyder
Perry
Westminster
Sajetty
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William Maynard
Essex
Scotland
Highgate
White Friars
Lemon-street
Goodman’s Fields
Meredith
Upper Grosvenor-street
Hanover-square
Spon
Geneva
Beaufort
London
Broakenschwerd
Tope
St. Paul’s
St. Paul’s Church-yard
T.kitchin
the Duke of York
The
Star
Holbourn Hill
J. Smith
Hogarth’s Head
Cheapside
J. Bowles
Black Horse
Carington Bowles
Re Sayer
Fleet-Street
Dr. Hill
R. Baldwin
Bookfelley
Parey-noster Row
J. Ridley
Jackson
St. James’s Screet
Ecclesiical
Lay
Wales
Henry the Eighch
Ach
Dodiley
Pall-Mall
London Evening Post
P.S
Turky
London Evening-Post
Sam
More-Street
Mansion House
Moorgate
Coleman Street
King’s Aris Yad
Lothbury
Capers Court
Grocers Hall Gardens
Pauly Compter
Princes Street
Tokenhouse
Bedlam
Tokenhouse Yard
Meres
Liz
John
Juvenal