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NYG(B.738.017
1-8 May 1738:12,21 (652)
London, Feb 15. Extract of a Letter for Leicester. That
you and the publick may no longer be impos'd by false and
scandalous insinuations, concerning the authors of the
treasonable paper lately publish'd in this borrough; I have
now to inform you, that in pursuance of the threatenings
therein mention'd, one of the corporation (who is charged by
affidavit before two of his Majesty's justices of the peace,
with having, on the tenth of June, drank the pretenders
health upon his knees under the name of King James the III)
on Thursday the ninth of this instant February, rais'd a
great mob with sound of trumpet and a French horn, who
march'd in a riotous manner all over the town, and after
breaking several windows and Pales of houses, they openly
and scandalously insulted the Friends of the Government. . .
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