Patriots Corner Letter and Royalist Toasts in 18th Century Pub Scene
A Middlesex Journal note from Wanstead details a dinner at the White Swan Tavern with 45 marks of time and 45 pints of porter, 45 bottles of wine, and 45 bowls of punch. Toaster lists include The King, The Queen, the Royal Family, and calls for liberty, parliamentary reform, and bold stances against tyranny.
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Esterbay
White Swan
House of Commons
Common-Council
London
Postal Paoli
Britain
Middlesex
George the Third
John Wilkes
Esgend
Postscript May 20 London notes and European dispatches
Marine and political dispatches from Naples Genoa Copenhagen and Westminster recount royal entertainments plans divisions and detachments ships battles and tariffs. Murmurs about taxation foreign servants malt liquor embargoes and public orders mix with society gossip including routs at Marlborough House and social notices from Westminster and St James's.
Patriot seeks relic of Paoli for Middlesex assembly room
An anonymous intelligence notes a celebrated patriotic gentleman plans to buy the famous plume of Paoli, Corsican hero, to adorn the Mile End Assembly-room where Middlesex Freeholders gather. A Rome rumor links Cardinal York and the abdicated Stuart family to future papal or political moves.
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Paoli
Mile End
Middlesex
Rome
York
Louw
Cardinal Stuart
Missing Report on Convict Hall Forgery Sentence
Letter from St Giles's Coffee House dated May 18, 1769 questions why Jonathan Hall sentenced to death for forgery was not reported with other convicts. Seeks explanation if Recorder of London can report only selected prisoners and notes papers from February 76th give the recorder's report excluding Hall.
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Duke of Newcastle
Ireland
Lord Townsend
Dutchess of Marlborough
Marlborough House
Pall Mall
Duchess of Buccleugh
Grosvenor Square
Earl Fitz-William
Staffordshire
W. B. Proctor
Paris
Mc. C
Middlesex
Robin Hood Society
Butcher Row
Temple Bar
Merchants, &c
London
Brentford
St. James's
Elevor
Jacobus
Georgius
France
Wesstinster Hall
Jares's
Court of Burgesses
City and Liberty of
Westminster
New Guildhall
Duke of Northumberland
Lise
England
Hague
Prussia
Old Bailey
Barnet
Wengate
William the Third
Southwark
Fleet-market
St. Brides
Cornmarket
Mark Lane
Hampstead
M‘quirk
Hopkins
M’quirk
Clerkenwell
Timothy Simpson
Mr. Stoddart
Clerkenwell Bridewell
John M‘cloud
Tyburn
Chester
Vauxhall
Westminster Bridge
St. Margaret’s
Bartlet
Holborn
Smithfield
Mileston
Spitalfields
Sibley
Bishopsgate-street
St. George’s Church
Hanover-square
Alexander Cumming
Bond-street
Miss Saunders
Paddington
Princess Street
Cavendish Square
John Drury
Drury
Marybone
Thomas Connally
St. James’street
Hendon
Belfound
George III
Jonathan Hall
Fuller, Baker
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Patriots Corner
The
Middlesex Journal
Mr. Fell
Wanstead
Efex
C. Woythy
Chronicle of Liberty
London and
Flanders
Naples
Portici
Genoa
Toulon
Corfica
Perpignan
Antibes
Lerici
Tuffany
Lion
Lsland
Juliana Maria
Wilhelmina Carolina
Zealand
Schleswick
Mars
le. Croix
Groen
Twelli A &c
Lincolnshire
Kent
Essex
Norfolk
Ile of Ely
N. B
Dicey and Co’s
Veal
Covert Garden Theatre
Shuter
Mariana
Bulkley
Faudus
T Amis
Forkins
Roffe
Stede
Hartle
Confederacy
Smith
Leffingham
Hazelquin
Faustus
Mr. Pilford
Mr. Wootey
William Famer
Trinity Lane
William Fames
India
Prem
Navy
Long
Sir
Mr. Hawkshaw
Hawkshaw
John Carpenter
John Jennings
St. Saviour’s School
St. Saviour’s
Goft
Goff
Pall-mall
St. Albav’s Street