Catalogue description Folio(s) 1A. Petition from the gentlemen, merchants, free burgesses, traders and...

Folio(s) 1A. Petition 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 1A, col 1] James Purkiss, Charles Tiffin, Samuel Cole, James Triggs, Henry Vincent, William Bayley, Benjamin Oliver, John Manning, Thomas Cropley, Robert Weller, Jonathan Dennis, [James Marchant], Thomas Sebborn, Thomas Bugg, Benjamin Blomfield, [Bezaliel Blomfield], [Bezaliel Blomfield junior], John Mixter, James Allestone, Thomas Adams, John Gibson, Thomas Wall, John Thompson, William Clements, [Samuel Neward], William Clements, William Hobrough, John Stonhold, John Finch, James Ives, James Crow, Henry Wolf, William Hardcastle, Thomas Briscoe.

[Folio 1A, col 2] John Brooker, William Milbank, Arthur Lamb, William Thompson, James Chinnery, Joshua Hastings, Joseph Wallis, James Green, William Flindall, Joseph Parr junior, Joseph Parr, Philip Rowland, William Blatch, George Osborn, Jonathan Reeve, Peter Johnson, John Sebborn, John Hardy, John Lawrence, Thomas Poole, George Moore, William Hedge, John Franks, John Stiles, James Lawrence, Cornelius Hails, Jeremy Baily, John Harris, Bowler Webb, James Webb, Daniel Deeks, James Bennell, Samuel Verlander, John Polhill, William Howell, John Byford.

[Folio 1A, col 3] John Marchant, John Franks, Joseph Parker, George Bishop, Thomas Morton, William Crow, John Spinks, Jacob Simons, [John Hawkins], Joseph Thorrowgood, William Smith, James Sebborn, Thomas Thompson, Samuel Taylor, Benjamin Johnson, John Harvey, Thomas Spinks, Thomas Sach, Clement Hurrell, Samuel Burkitt, [Joseph Howel], John Pasfield, George Pratt, James Dunthorne, Thomas Middleton, Francis [illegible], Thomas Lewis, William Lamb, Robert Walford, Thomas Holloway, George Dring, Jacob Brown, Joseph Manning, John Phillips, Robert Steel.

[Folio 1A, col 4] Ed Bray, John Howe, John Bacon, James Johnson, Thomas Byford, William Harrison, [Samuel Withers], William Walker, William Bloomfield, Robert Johnson, Samuel Tillett, Thomas Nice, George Coppen, John Pitchere, James Bennell, Samuel Scott, Joseph Knott, Jonathan Richard Emery, Joseph Spooner, Robert Webster, Paterick Riddle, Stephen Tills, James Bushaw, Samuel Bransom, Edward Wright senior, John Blackwell, George Grimwood, Joseph Martin, Thomas Davis, Robert Everitt, Daniel Fincham, William Cave, John Stow, William Baker, Robert Alexander.

[Folio 1A, col 5] John Finch, Robert Havers, Edward Wright, William Coppin, William Cable, William Smith, William Sebborn, John Knapp, David Charles, John Cornell, William Dawson, Samuel Fiske, Henshaw Elliston, Isaac Brett, William Turner, J Instance, William Sherman, Jonathan Buckingham, Thomas Ardley, Joseph Ward, John Davis, Isaac Emery junior, Peter Bartholomew, William Hawkins, Abraham Humm, Richard Instance, William Hubbart senior, James Garding, William Stanway, [William Pross], Peter Johnson, Edward Todd, Edward Greenleaf, John Horrex, William Underwood, James Ward.

[Folio 1A, col 6] John Reynolds, Thomas Buckingham, Thomas Welham, Auther Munson, Thomas Brand, Edward Bragg, James Wright, Samuel James, Joseph Clark, T Sherman, Thomas Clark, James Davey, John Butcher, Charles Rayner, William Barzel, John Betts, Thomas Linnett, Michael Lavallin, Michael Cook, James Brightwell, John Brooker, George Mason, William Cater, John Bacon, Thomas Barrett, Abraham Ayers, Robert Smith, Edward Morgon, John Verlander, William Hawkins, Dyer Sansom, John Spooner, Jonathan Buckingham, William Brown, Joshua Harvey, Samuel Day.

[Folio 1A, col 7] Philip Verhorslet, Samuel Stow, John Godfrey, Henry Osmond junior, Abraham Sansom, Wessen Nelson, William Pryke, John Sallowes, Edward Britt, Robert Lufkin, Charles White, James Leper junior, John Pullen, John Byford, Daniel Lyes, Benjamin Johnson junior, Robert Gledhill, James Knapp, Richard Mortlock, Mark Bland, Edward Fowler, Edward Morden, Matthew Middleton, James Everitt, William Jefferys, Thomas Parker junior, Samuel Lawrence, Luke Bland, H Bloomfield, Richard Broom, Isaac Gale, George Bloomfield, [James Fearis], James Ward junior, John Stains.

[Folio 1A, col 8] [Isaac Emanyel], Philip Pretty, John Munson, [David King], [John Levesk], Nathaniel Taylor, Alvan Offord, Joseph Goodwin, James Leper, William Nichols, [Abe Glass], Isaac Young, John Morley, William Moore, Edward Moore, Henry Holloway, Benjamin Johnson senior, Daniel Hubbart, Peter Mortlock, John Nayler, Richard Mortlock, Thomas Bland, Thomas Butcher, Thomas Clarry, Joseph Caviell, John Hubbard, Timothy King, John King, James Clements, William Potter, William Hinton, George Doe, William Dines, Jacob Verlander, Samuel Sadler, Thomas Harvey.