Petition Debate On Thirty-Nine Articles In Parliament
Sir Roger Newdigate leads a heated debate over a petition to repeal tests of orthodoxy. Speakers argue church and state are linked, oath of allegiance, and the Act of Union restrict reforms while Scotland and England remain separate. The clerk reads the oath clause to be continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howse Or Commons
William Meredith
Roger Newdigate
Commonwealth
Scotland
Parliament of
England
Church of England
Anne
Kingdom of
Great Britain
Church of
Ireland
Wales
Berwick Upon Tweed
To the Painter of the Middlesex Journal
A correspondent mocks the City of London’s representative in court. The narrator laments the elegance of the Father of the City’s testimony at the Old Bailey and jokes about the shorthand writer and recorder correcting it.
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Old Bailey
Recorder
Ladbroke
London
Allege City Lands Committee plots threaten honest councilors
A correspondent warns the Printer of the Middlesex Journal that the City Lands Committee holds the city’s estates in reserve and that factions like Wilkes Crosby and Cawdron use it to push leases. The writer fears improper jobs and a princely pension funded by city leases, branding opponents as ministerial tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Printer
Wilkes
Crosby
Cawdron
Royal turmoil and Danish intrigues haunt 1771
The piece recalls a Saturday December 7 1771 paragraph warning of royal ailments and plots. It describes the Princess Dowager of Wales and the Queen of Denmark falling under suspicion, with ministers preparing a bill to curb royal marriages and the Duke of Cumberland poised for court reception. Reports from Copenhagen and Vienna touch diplomacy, arrests, and a volatile mood about monarchy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Cumberland
Brunswick
Denmark
Sier
Bufband
England
House of Commons
Wales
Commons
House
Earl of Bute
Lord Rochford
Copenhagen
Paris
Farthor
Mmf
Vienna
Russia
Porte
Falmouth
Havannah
Hamburgh
Toulon
Europe
Rusia
Sweden
France
Portugal
Spain
Prussia
Charles
Anne
Berlin
Turku
London news and treacherous plots in early 18th century text
Reports from London include Lord Pomfret urged to prosecute a printer in the King's Bench, debates over Parliament's coercive authority, and convoys ordered to sail to the Leeward Islands and Jamaica on the 15th of next month. Reuters describe robberies, drownings, and deaths in the city, with several ships sailing to the Americas and the Caribbean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkes
Afis Macall
Pantheon
Jay
Admiralty
Leeward
Ilands
Jamaica
Ministry
Lord Pomfret
House of Lords
King’s Bench
House of Lords and Commons
Cork
Quebec
New England
Burns
Red Lion Street
Clerkenwell
Surrey
John Stiles
Portsmouth
Isle of Wight
St. George’s Fields
Simpere
Pepper-street
Southwark
Shoreditch
Woodified
Walthamstow
Chigwell
Bond
Holborn
Pancrass
Gray’s Inn-lane
Golden Square
Hant
George Hunt
Eig
Stewart
Jermyn-street
Pratt
Goodman’s Fields
Port Nouth
London
Tobin
Granades
Royal Exchange
Woodford
Virginia
Britannia
Davis
Barbadoes
Stocks of the Day at One OClock
Stock quotes show Bank at 87 3 4ths for 3 per cent red and 87 3 4ths for 3 per cent cons. Other entries include 1726 at 86 1/2, 1758 at 1/4, 4 per cent cons. at 95, New 5S S. Ann and Old S. S. Ann around 99 3 8ths to 100 and India at 225 with dividend. Bonds 5.48. 2 525 pt. Long Ann 26 1-8th. Navy and Victualling Bills 17-8ths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red
Confol
S. Ann
S. S
S. S. Ann
India
Missing Gentleman Sought After January 20
A gentleman vanished after Monday afternoon January 20 and is likely the victim of a fatal accident. Reward of one hundred guineas offered for information to Mr Ridley, bookseller, St James Street. Description includes chocolate frock and waistcoat, blue surtout, black breeches, white stockings, plain shirt, hat, gold watch with arms, crystal locket, and diamond seal. Pawnbrokers urged to detain the party and report to the above.
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Ridley
St. James’s Street
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Thomas Pitt
Sir Roger
Newdig
Felawing
Middlesex Journal
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