Dissolution of Dominica Assembly Over Dispute on Duty
From Dominica we hear that great disputes between the Council and Assembly over a four and a half percent duty on produce led to the Council's vow to stop business. Governor Shirley dissolved the Assembly on June 15 after attempts to reconcile both houses failed, hoping to restore order and tranquillity in the colony.
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St. Vincent’s
Dominica
Shirley
House of Assembly
Council
War and political dispatches from the Hague to London
An extra from the Hague notes Colone de Scheiter offering to raise a regiment for America and seeking London to tender his services, Count de Tauben and others traveling to Gibraltar and Port Mahon, and pay-raise news from Paris for soldiers starting January 1776. Reports Plymouth transports with wounded and widows, Gosport arrivals of ships and troops, and Pope’s death with executors. Conta ins marriages and deaths in Britain.
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Hague
Hanover
Colone de Scheiter
America
London
Count de Tauben
Flanoverian Guards
Gibraltar
Port Mahon
Paris
Count de May
Lord Cavan
Plymouth
Bolton
Catwater
War Office
Gosport
Crescent
Boston
Portsmouth
Mahon
Spithead
Hugh Earl of Marchmont
Earl Bathurst
Lord Mansfield
George Arbuhnot
Richard Worsley
D. 5. Fleming
Harewood House
Yorkshire
Swiccard
Raffa Merchant
Milles
Chariton
Harder
Harpalley
Gray
Swage
Ludgate Hill
Hackney
Miss Temple
Sir Rich
Temple
Navy
Edmund Mathelyne
Buffetdown
Wilts
Bramham Biggin
Charles Allanson
Ripon
Sturmy
King’s Arms
Serle-Street
Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Charles du Buck
Red Lion Square
Mr. Walls
Tho. Walls
Jamaica
Tothill-street
Westminster
Beck
Green-street
Grosvemor-quare
Berbue
Duke of Moratrose
Collet
The
Guards
Fortex-lane
Edward Green
Manchester Address Sparks Tory Creed Critique in The Free Citizen
In a Sept. 13 Free Citizen response to a Manchester address, the writer scorns Tory and Papist notions, defends American reconciliation, and accuses the ministry of tyranny. He asserts freeholders and London livery will press members for a peaceful end to the war and a reformed administration.
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Tublic
Friends of Liberty
Mancheter
Townly
Manchester
Scotch
Corinth
British Empire
Middlesex
London
America
Turing Towns
York
Ottoman Grand Council
Doncaster Corporation Cuts Land Rents to Aid Poor
In Candlemas, the Doncaster corporation plans to lease lands in small parcels for twenty five years at about one fourth the usual rent. The move aims to lower production costs and benefit local inhabitants, especially through cheaper milk, despite concerns it reduces public estate.
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Corporation of Doncaster
Candlemas
Doncaster
Doncaster Corporation Lays Out Public Play-House Plan
The Doncaster corporation reviews a scheme to grant lands for a public benefit, showcasing a trust in which 32 of 37 members have signed leases to themselves. Five abstain or oppose, yet the council praises the move as noble and worthy, urging other bodies to follow.
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Corporation of
Doncaster
Birks and Pearce
Sadlers and Capvakers
Haymarket
Frephold Estate Land to be Sold at Black Bull
Land sale notice for Frephold Estate containing forty four acres of meadow arable and pasture with dwelling outbuildings orchard and garden between Poulton and Blackpool. Sale to highest bidder on Thursday 28th of Sept at the Black Bull Poulton unless sold sooner by private contract. Plans and further details available from Mr R Wilson attorney Poulton or Mr Mitchelson surveyor Blenheim Street Oxford Street.
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Black Bull
Poulton
Blackpool
R Wilson
Mr. Mitchelson
Blenheim Street
Oxford-street
Michaelmas
Sussex
London
Hutchinson
Long Aacre
Glamorganshire
Bear-Inn
Cowbridge
Michaelstone Lepit
Wainstone
County of Glamorgan
Cardiff
Bristol Channel
Bath
Bristol
Whitchurch
Roath
Lantriffent
Lentwit
Wairtre
St. George's
Laniherne
St. Brid.’s
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London Evening Post
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Cornhill
Royal Exchange
Otober
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Charing Crot
Great Britain
John King
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Eest
Darking
Surry
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King’s Head
Horsham
Guildford
Cobham
Epsom
Greyhound
Croydon
Swan
Lad-Lane
King's- Arms
Leeds
Nottingham Down
Leicester
Hanforezh
Peach of
Sheffield, and Co
Carlisle
John Garthwaite
Carlisle, and Co
Thomas Jarvits
Canterbury
W. Blackton
Meff. Clarke and Collins
Randall
Ottawa
Samuel Davis
A. M
College of Princeton
New Jersey
J. Buckland
C. Dilly
N. B
John Whitty
M. A
Wett A. Hampstead
Parih
Shalfteer
Wight
Newport
Henry Trattle
Lymington
Ifanis
Pasith
Toreridge
Herts
High Court of Chancery
Robert Brounton
Newtown
Montgomery
John Powell Pryce
Seeclement
Llaniwchairn
Llandryheill
Bettus
Mocffee
Symond’s.Inn
Red Lyon-square
John Blake
Essex
Street
Ludlow
Bishops Castle
Shewsbury
John Green
Sexmon
Exeter
John Hogg
Paternot
Ter-Row
J. Johnson
St. Paul’s Church Yard
Charles Howe
Actavo
Iley
G. Riley
Sterne’s Head
Curzon-street
May-Fair
Meff. Richardson
Riley
M'Mahon
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