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BG.768.022
1 Aug 1768:13 (696 Supplement)
London. May 9. . . Yesterday morning a large body of
sailors assembled in Stepney-Fields, and proceeded through
the city, to petition the Parliament for a regulation of
their wages as in other trades. They were very orderly in
their proceedings, had flags in front, in center, and in
rear, with fiddles playing before them, and several
ringleaders with boatswains whistles were interspersed
throughout, who answered one another, and regulated the
whole body. One of their chiefs, before they set out,
addressed them, recommending peace and good order; and
expressed his sorrow at seeing many of them with large
sticks in their hands, on which some hundreds of sticks were
thrown away immediately.
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