ANNUAL REGISTER. 
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London: letter to 
treaty for peace, v 101] 
»+.. sudden rise of the Thames, v 105] 
e-.. letter to the lord mayor, on the reco- 
very of Newfoundland, v 107] ae 
Rae on signing 
the preliminaries of peace, v 108] 
«++. mischiefs done by severe frost, v 119] 
oe " opposition to the cider act, vi 35] 151] 
152 
oone SRF of the d. of York, and 
princes of Mecklenburgh, by the lord 
mayor, vi 55] 
«eee high tides at, vi 56] vii 99] x 46*] 
xviii 90] xxxiii 6] xlviii 463, 464, liv 130 
e»-.» Tiot of the sailors to rescue some 
women of the town, vi 62] 
---» proclamation of peace, vi 63] 
+++. increase of, shown by the importation 
of coals, vi 64] 
«.-- great entertainment by ald. Beckford 
on Easter Monday, vi 67] 
---- public entry of the Venetian ambassa- 
dors, vi 69] 
«»-. thanks of the corporation of Exeter to 
the common council, for it’s opposition to 
the cider act, vi 72] 
»... address on the peace, vi 76] 202] 
+--+ conduct of the populace on the occa- 
sion, vi 76] 
+... procession of merchants with an ad- 
dress on the peace, vi 77] 
--- plan for the distribution of justice in 
the vicinity settled by the acting magis- 
trates, 7b. 
«--- baker fined for serving bread short of 
weight to the prisoners in the Poultry 
compter, vi 78] 
+++. Seizure of Irish butter, vi 87] 
-... address to the king on the birth of his 
2nd son, vi 94] 
e+. violent storms, vi 95] xv 85] 128] 
xxxvi 22. xxxvii 41, 42. xlv 467, 468. 
xlvi 360. xlvii 402, 418. xlviii 423, 429. 1 
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«--. riot of Spitalfields weavers, vi 105] 
+... escape of prisoners from Whitechapel 
jail, 2d. 
«++. horse patrol established on the roads 
near, vi 107] 
«+. petition to the Commons for repealing 
the excise relating to cider, vi 110] 
+++. Tiot at burning the North Briton, vi 
144] vii 51] 
«++» motion in common council for thanks 
to the sheriffs in Wilkes’s affair negatived, 
vi 144-5] 
+++» representation of the city to it’s re- 
presentatives on the cider act, vi 151] 
+++. petition to the Commons against it, 
Lords, vi 152] 
cco king, th. 
+++. address of the merchants and traders 
on the peace, vi 204] 
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the lord mayor, on a London: thanks to their representatives on 
the business of general warrants, vii 51] 
.-.. freedom of the city to lord chief jus- 
tice Pratt, and his picture requested to 
be placed in Guildhall, vii 51] 88) 
+...» procession of the silk-weavers to state 
their miserable condition to the king, vii 
63] 
+++. Swine improperly fed seized by the 
magistrates, vii 64] 
»»-- several journeymen tailors taken up 
by a party of masters, vii 66] 
.-- spire of St. Bride’s shatteréd by light- 
ning, vii 80] 99] 
»»«» increase in the value of land near, vii 
82] 
«++» complaints respecting Blackfriars 
bridge declared by the committee to be 
unfounded, vii 91] 
«... scaffolding of St. Bride’s broken by 
the wind, vii 99] 
«+s» the merchants petition lord Halifax 
on the high price of provision, vii 103] 
«+.. number of Germans brought over by 
a foreign adventurer on pretence of send- 
ing them to N. America, vii 145] viii 98] 
xxxil 27, 28 
+++. glance at the new ministry in an ad- 
dress to the king on the birth of his third 
son, viii 46] 
-.+. Theod, Janssen elected chamberlain, 
viii 58] 
«++ floor of the court at Guildhall gave 
way at a crowded trial, viii 58] 
«+.» petition to the Commons on the dearth 
of bread, viii 60] 
-+-++ curious handbill circulated on the 29th 
of January, 2b. 
++. riotous assemblage of fellows pretend- 
ing to be distressed weavers, viii 89] 
«+.» stoppage of the exportation of wheat 
po | followed by importation, viii 
2] 
+++. weavers relieved by a collection, id. 
+--+ petition from the sufferers by fire at 
Konigsburg, viii 112] 
«++. eagerness for building at, viii 113] 
+... address to his majesty on the birth of 
a 3rd prince, vi.i 125] 185] 262] 
+++» reception of this address said to have 
been a subject of debate, viii 126] 
+... motion in the common council that all 
the members should be possessed of a 
certain qualification, viii 135] 
+++. new sewer at Fleet ditch completed, 
and Bridewell bridge taken down, viii 136] 
-» ++ 500/, presented to the Society of Arts, 
ib. 
--.. action against a farrier, that had been 
employed by the contractor for artillery 
horses, setting up in the city, i. 
a lottery office keeper, 
not being free, viii 137] 
+». great fire at the corners of Cornhill 
and Leadenhall street, viii 143] 
