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PC.769.062
5-12 Jun 1769:1672 (126)
[In report of elections in Middlesex:]
A great body of freeholders, Mr. Wilkes's friends,
preceded by a band of music, with colours flying, marched
along Pall-Mall, and stopped fronting the palace, where they
gave three loud huzzas, and the music began to play. This
alarmed the guards, who marched out to the gate with their
bayonets fixed; but the company marched on peaceable for
Brentford, and the soldiers returned into the barracks. . .
[1/2 column]
At night the inhabitants of all the principal streets
illuminated their houses, the bells of several churches were
rung, and every measure exhibited to testify their joy on
the occasion, which was concluded with great prudence and
decorum.
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