Sussex Freexpaper Letter Urges Parliament Dissolution
A 1970 Sussex freexpaper letter protests parliamentary influence and ministerial obedience, warning against encroachments on rights and urging a dissolution of Parliament. It urges Freemen to reject courtier pressures, recover lost freedoms, and push for representative leadership in East Grinstead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neaveale
Pegivesnagd
Blackiston
East Grinstead
Esart
Peritian
Sussex
Remark on English rights and loyalty to the realm
A fragment praising the birthright of Englishmen and urging defense of liberty against privileged rulers. It decries exclusion of commons from power, warns against betrayal of the constitution, and calls for justice and clemency toward murderers and subjects alike.
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England
William
Brentford
St. George’s Fields
James
English liberty attacked by ministers and jealous rulers
A fragment from a 18th century letter decries English liberty under James IIII era figures, accusing ministers of pushing laws to strip rights. It contrasts English oppression with past freedoms, lists proffered punishments for unnamed targets, and laments taxes on daily needs to enrich court sycophants. The piece continues with dire reports on European politics, debts, and speculative doom for English constitutional rights.
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James
House of Commons
England
Europe
Elizabeth
Alarm over new bills expanding JP powers in London
The House of Commons debates two bills granting JPs the power to levy up to thirty pounds, imprison for a year, and publicly whip without bail or jury. Critics fear loss of trial by jury, noting the peril to liberty and family security as the measures reduce appeals to quarter sessions. The piece cites Sir Lord Hillsborough and General Cornwallis, and contains a humorous anecdote about a Gray's Inn countryman duped in a tavern scam, followed by ads for dental products with ornate claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Caret
Happy
Plessue
Lord Hillsborough
Whitehall
Ailpatelis
Secretary of State
Cornwallis
Beverdor
Jamaica
Hess
Grays-Inn
New-Prison
Clerkenwell
Jacob ‘Hemet
Majesty
Amelia
Hay
Hemet
W. Bayley
Cockpur-street
India-House
Beadenhall-street
London
Ea the Pea
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Denbigh
Newgate
Billingsgate
Newmarket
L— Holland
Chick-lane
Kennington-common
Bloombury Gang
Sir Bull- Face
Field- Lane
Oliver Cromwwell
Aling Crusovite
France
Society of Jesuits
Frescati
Duke of Yorks
Naples
Danube
Berlin
Vienna
Glatz
Kingdom of
Bohemia
Verfoy
Choiseul
Geneva
Cadiz
Spain
Philippine Islands
Madrid
Cortes of
Council of State
Leghorn
Honduras
Niger
Foreign Intelligence
Rome
Lond.on
Fithis Company
Sale
Lyon
Caceor
Feliz
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