Citation - American Weekly Mercury: 1738.04.27

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Index Entry French horn, in Leicester, played to draw crowd for protest march 
Location Leister 
Citation
AWM.738.010
20-27 Apr 1738:22 (956)  
Leister, Feb. 15. . . [Report of scandalous insinuations of
treasonable writings published in papers]
. . . one of the Corporation (who is charged by affidavit
before two of his Majesty's Justice, of the Peace, with
having, on the tenth of June, drank the Pretender's 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, 
. . . [13 lines on other disturbances]


Generic Title American Weekly Mercury 
Date 1738.04.27 
Publisher Bradford, Andrew 
City, State Philadelphia, PA 
Year 1738 
Bibliography B0001163
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