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Disturbances and civic measures in London and beyond
Reports from London state the Lord Mayor candidates Townsend and Sawbridge plan inquiry into urban disturbances with Under Sheriffs and aim to show peace can be kept without military aid. Notes allege salary terms for the Recorder, petitions in Exeter and Bodmin, and growing freeholders support for electors. Dispatches mention Vienna talks, naval movements, and global price shifts, with clerical and military appointments and numerous obituaries and societal notices.
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Livery of
London
Half Moon Tavern
Cheapside
Sheriffs
Alderman Beckford
Sheriffs Townsend and
Sawbridge
Lovell
Soho Square
Beckford
Fonthill
Townsend
TueGay- Jaft
Ysohdén
City of London
Recorder of
Exon
Bodmin
Cornwall
York
Great Britain
Nottingham
Luttrel
Vienna
Count de Seilern
St. James’s Square
Francis Edward Gwynn
16Th Regiment of Dragoons
James Lewis
Chester
Burleham
Combermere
Cheshire
North America
Boston
General Assembly
Hull
Fays
Holderness
Ewil
Hawk
Humber
Spithead
Poland
Galilib
Landisiot
Achgons Bis Haring