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1820 Apr. 16 1
Collectanea Remarks on Trade

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Of Michaelmas Term in the Sixtieth year of
the Reign of King George the Third.

Be it Remembered Surrey to wit that Sir Robert Gifford Knight
Attorney General of our present Sovereign Lord the King who for our
said Lord the King in this behalf prosecutes in his proper
person comes here into the Court of our said Lord the King
before the King himself at Westminster on Monday next
after Fifteen days of Saint Martin in this same Term
and for our said Lord the King gives the Court here to understand
and be informed that Philip Francis late of the
Parish of Saint John within the Borough of Southwark in
the County of Surrey Labourer being a malicious seditious
and ill disposed person and unlawfully and maliciously
devising and intending to raise and excite discontent
and disaffection in the minds of the Liege subjects of
our Lord the present King and to move and incite the liege
subjects of our said Lord the King unlawfully and with
force and violence to change and alter the Constitution
of this Realm to dislike and contempt of the Commons
House of Parliament of this Realm and to move and excite
the liege subjects of our said Lord the King unlawfully
and with force and violence to change and alter the constitution
of this Realm heretofore to wit on the Thirteenth
day of September in the Fifty ninth year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King
Defender of the Faith at the Parish aforesaid in the said
County of Surrey unlawfully and maliciously did publish
and cause to be published a certain scandalous malicious
and seditious Libel of and concerning the Common's House
of Parliament of this Realm containing therein amongst
other things divers scandalous malicious and seditious matters
and things of and concerning the said Common's House
of Parliament of this Realm in one part thereof according
to the tenor and effect following that is to say, To the Inhabitants
of Manchester and its vicinity who met together in
St. Peter's Field on the 16th day of August last for the purpose
of discussing the best means of obtaining a Radical Reform
in the House of Commons and who escaped with their lives
from the wanton and murderous attack made on them by
that brutal armed force called the Cheshire and Manchester
Yeomanry Cavalry Fellow Citizens One who witnessed your
resolute and at the same time peaceable and uniformly well-disposed
conduct at the public Meeting of the 16th ult presumes
to address you on the subject of that meeting and the murderous
attack of the brutal armed force who were sent amongst
you by those who disgrace the names of Magistrates
of Manchester To me it was a painful moment to think
that such a body of fine resolute Men should have been surprised
unarmed by a cowardly and ferocious armed force
Cowardly murderers that would have shrunk from fifty
of

Identifier: | JB/137/053/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 137.
Date_1	1820-04-16	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	137	Main Headings	radicalism not dangerous
Folio number	053	Info in main headings field	collectanea remarks on trade
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 e1 / d2 e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	46770
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