Westminster Committee Resolution on Shelburne Motion
A Westminster committee at the King's Arms Tavern on February 9 1780 unanimously resolved to thank Lord Shelburne and his supporting peers for their house of Lords motion and to condemn Hillsborough for misrepresenting the aims of petition committees. The resolution authorized sending thanks to the committee chairmen and admitted the chairmen as honorary members.
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King’s Arms Tavern
Palace Yard
Lord Shelburne
House of Peers
Earl of Hillsorough
England
Counties
Cities
Tts
Commissioners solicit tenders for subsisting sick seamen
The Commissioners for taking care of Sick and Wounded Seamen will be ready on Wednesday February 22 to receive treated tender offers and contract for subsisting in health and sickness French and Spanish prisoners to be carried into the care.
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Ofice
Essex Committee Proclaims Peaceful Reform in County
Chelmsford February 1780 The Essex Committee declares its aim to promote reform only through peaceable conduct and loyalty to the legislature. They seek support from clergy freemen and all inhabitants while stating they will not back any candidate lacking confidence in supporting the petition to Parliament for necessary reform.
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Essex
Chelmsford
County of
Notice of adjourned committee meeting at St Albans Tavern
The committee adjourns to Tuesday the 22d instant at twelve o clock in St Albans Tavern London. Robt Smyth chairman Chelmsford 1780 February 6. Land holdings and manors including Bates Fleming Sc Stephens Salt ash Moditon with present incumbency noted as aged.
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St. Alban’s Tavern
London
Robert Smyth
Chelmsford
Sth
Mesfrs
Campbell and Anderson
C.leutta
Beval
HE Barton
Cross
Bates Fleming
Sc. Stephens
Saltash
Thomas Pearce
Mary Billinge
Mr. Herring
Mrs. Brooking
Derry
Mutton
Moditon
Mr. Clements
Ruby Reed
Thomas Skions
House of Commons Petition Debate Delayed on Table
Sir Henry Paulet St. John presented the Hampshire petition which was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Fervoife stated he acted for country and constituents to show the petition did not originate from faulted principles but reflected the language of respectable gentlemen clergy freeholders and others of property in that county with no famous person named.
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Henry Paulet St. John
Hampshire
Fervoife
Jamaica Petition Calls for Defence Measures
Mr Plemer gave notice to present a petition from planters in Jamaica detailing the island’s defenceless state and repeated unanswered government appeals. The petition urged Parliament to take necessary measures for Jamaica’s defence, amid prior ministerial inaction. The Middlesex petition lay on the table and the defaulters were called over as the House adjourned.
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Wood
Middlesex
Plemer
Hertford
Peasant
Jamaica
Lengh
News from London and Lisbon drives public measures
Reports reach London on Lisbon mail via Hanover packet Captain Todd with word of a recent naval action where the English fleet under Sir George Rodney reportedly defeated the Spanish fleet off St Mary’s Bay and captured several ships. Court business at Guildhall discusses petitions to Parliament, public money, and measures against government influence, with toasts at Westminster praising economy and reform.
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Lisbon
Hanover
Todd
Falmouth
Plymouth
George Rodney
Mr. Walpole
England
Faro
St. Mary’s Bay
Cadiz
Guildhall
House of Lords
House of Commons
York
Hurford
Lord Pembroke
Wiltshire
Capt
Bennett
Duke of Glouester
16Th Regiment of Light Dragoons
Carlisle
North Riding
Yorkhire
Marquis of
Carmarthen
Walter Waring
Eig
Coventry
Scott
Gray’s Inn
Lord Thurlow
John Browning
T. Mackenzie Humberston
Lord Seaforth
Adam
Fox
William Fullarton
Lord Stormont
Paris
Jenkinson
Lord Bate
India
Westminster Committee
Wywill
County of
William
Lord Shelburne
London
Westminter
Lord Camden
Admiral Keppel
Burke
City of London
Marquis of Rockingham
George Savile
America
France
Dublin
Shrewbury
Admiral Rodney
Libon
Public Office
Richard Odcroft
Thomas Layton
Bagshot
Blackwater
Hertford Bridge
Reading
Charles the Second
Odcroft
Richard Crouch
Hounslow Heath
A. F. Styre
York Cathedral
Walley
Wolley
Thurnfeze
Yorkshire
William Seamore
Barnet
Sally Fletcher
Watton
Herts
H. B. Millikin
Parry
James Spaldinng
Wanstead
Essex
Lieut. Allen
72D Regiment
Bennet
Aldermanbury
William Franks
Lincoln’s Inn
Gauflen
Peter Gauflen
Hatch
Brudge-street
Apothecary
Cotillion
Suffolk Streec
Southwark
Evan Davis
St. George’s Fields
Mary Tabois
Peter Tabois
Etg
Ealing
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Fhereas
Sam
Timothy Shelley
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James Fones
Bristol
Fobu Parr
Liverpool
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Rashleigh
Young
Portugal-treet
Lincoln's Jan
Insford
Committee of
Jamaica Plantes and Mechans
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Mesfis
Smith
Payne
Smiths
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Essex Committee
East India House
United Company of Merchants of England
East Indies
Leadenhall-street
James Ellis
Calcutta
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Cornwall
Devon
King’s Arms Inn
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Woolter-street
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Stone-house-lane
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Mr. Date
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Charity School
Alexander Chrisie
Francis Croger
Peer Simmons
Sarah Hobbs
M. Raner
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John West
Penphrase
Robert Philp
Mr. Leash
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Richard Lee
Samuel Stephens
Richard Hanley
Naval Bank Company
Birch
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Har:street
Sutton
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Clement
Ian
Thurstaz
London Bridge
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