Catalogue description Folio(s) 1B. Petition [continued from HO 42/37/1] from the gentlemen, merchants, free...

Folio(s) 1B. Petition [continued from HO 42/37/1] from the gentlemen, merchants, free burgesses, traders and householders of the town of Colchester, Essex, to King George III, lamenting the hardship and unemployment currently experienced, with trade seriously affected by the war with France. They request that the King 'endeavour to terminate the war'. Signed by:

[Folio 1B, col 1] James Halls, Robert Tabor, John C Tabor, John Eglonton Wallis, Samuel Daniell, D D Lloyd, John Thurstan, Robert Tabor junior, R R Newell, James Thorn, John Blyth, Robert Stanes, Isaac Slythe, Robert Halls MD, G Hobbs, J Diss, Benjamin Strutt, William Goodwin, Stephen Betts, Joseph Wallis junior, James Lovett, J Simpsen, Charles Jaggard, John Hodges, John Rudkin, Thomas Tillett, Joseph Robinson, A Dunhorne, Rees Harris, A Arnold, James Powles, Thomas Marshall, W Ashwell, James Brite, John Spurgeon.

[Folio 1B, col 2] William Linton, George Madrass, John White, Thomas Hocker, Thomas Staines, William Nevill, William Wootton, Samuel Stuck, William Blomfield, C F Mustard, Joseph Stapleton, W Betts, Robert Storry, James Spurgeon, Robert Hale, F Walford, John Rouse senior, Charles Heath, Michael Boyle, Joseph Verlander, Thomas Ellis, Dan Hale, William Mason junior, James Herbert, Dan Rudkin senior, Joseph Ward, John Moore, Giles Nunn, Peter Langley, William Rouse, William Smith, Alexander Campbell, Samuel Tabor, Isaac Marsden, John Kent.

[Folio 1B, col 3] James Ellis, Edward Allen, Thomas Steevens, George Dodson, Peter Rogers, William Nichols, Ed Holland, William Summersum, Edward Fowler, William Morley, James Ruse, Thomas Parker senior, James Mansfield senior, James Mansfield junior, Sam Mansfield, J Agnis, Morffee Lince junior, John Boggis, Thomas Aldous, Henry Agnis, John Ward senior, William Francis, William Cole, William Kemp, John Rouse junior, John Banks, Joseph Eisdell, Jacob Verlander, Thomas Strutt, Joseph Bumsted, Samuel Buckingham, Anthony Bentall.

[Folio 1B, col 4] Philip Buckingham, Peter Moore, Peter Rogers junior, John Franklin, W Condler, James Martin, John Rix, Thomas Hensom, James Martin Junior, John Talbott, Samuel Wright, Morffee Lince, Samson Wire senior, Robert Yates, John Ward junior, Peter Tayspill, John Welham, Samuel Verlander, John Williams, William Woodcock senior, William Woodcock junior, Thomas Smith, [Robert Wallis], [William Borrows], [Thomas Whybrow], William Baker, William James, Samuel Carter, Richard Cobbing, James Fitch, Thomas Bradley, James Hedge, William Turvey, [Thomas Donbarton], John Brown.

[Folio 1B, col 5] Edward Moore, Samson Wire junior, Peter Smith, Daniel Newman, Sarles John [John Sarles], Thomas Brown, Tonkinson Keeling, John Blomfield, William Tilney, James Bennell, James Norman junior, John Brown, William Bird, John Harrison, William Hawkins, Edward Bouttell, William Smith senior, Isaac Mixer, Edward Duce, John Wire, Samuel Woodham, John Cadman, [Richard Bland], John Parr, [N Martin], Henry Downs, Mathew Burges, William Munsey, Richard Lane, John Neal, Robert Star, Thomas Summersum, Samuel Butcher, Thomas Barnes.

[Folio 1B, col 6] William Hardy, James Hardy, James Heffer, William Moore, Isaac Whatson, Henry Foxwell, George Mason, Christopher Orrin senior, James Orrin, Christopher Orrin junior, [Daniel Horan], George Charlton, Christopher Sanger, John Harper, Christopher Harden, William Hedson, Richard Smith junior, James Albra, Jeames Richerson, Thomas Dyer, Henry Bland, [Henry Scown], Matthew Howe, J Denniss, Joseph Dennis, William Cock, John Winch, William Roberson, John Barton, [Samuel Dade], Richard Coleman, John Box, Samuel Chapman.

[Folio 1B, col 7] Abram Brown, Samuel Johnson, Abraham Osmond, Henry Osmond, Thomas Hewerdine, George Lester, John Sargent, Joseph Martin, John Smith, Robert Harrison, John Burgess, Christopher Nickels, John Walker, John Harvey, John Formon, Samuel Woodham junior, William Harden, William Halls, Jonathan Clarke, Thomas Lewis, Edward Lee, Thomas Howard, John Sadler, Thomas Munday, Samuel Greenfield, George Johnson, John Wiles, Jacob Crichett, Benjamin Mattacks, William Clark, Joseph Shephard, William Abbott, Thomas Gibson, Thomas Howard, John Turvey, James Pretty.

[Folio 1B, col 8] Robert Wittey, Samuel Pidgen, Thomas Blatch, Samuel Tillett, Jonathan Merry, John Williams, Samuel Bedford, William Carter, John Cox, John Rayner, Henry Hodgson, Thomas Hodgson, John Cox junior, James Clark, James Hill, T Hirk [T Kirk], John Smith, Samuel Tottom, Thomas Gibson, Abraham Paine, [John Brotherwood], John Pattrick, John Ingram, Edward Lay, John Goslin, David Chapman, Thomas Peck, Isaac Baker, Joel Bland, John Brown, Edmund Cross, Jonathan Clary, H Ashbey, Samuel Buckingham, Robert Potter.