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Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Reports from Dublin describe escalating mob violence: a draper was brutally attacked, tarred and feathered for importing English goods, and left critically ill. Tensions also rise between volunteers, army officers, and insults to the Lord Lieutenant's entourage.
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Another account says, that great disputes arise daily between the volunteers and the Officers of the army on Dublin duty: and that the gentlemen in the suite of the Lord Lieutenant seldom go abroad without meeting with insults from the populace.
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Dublin
Event Date
Last Week
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reputable draper dangerously ill, life despaired of
Event Details
Mob dragged a draper from his house for importing English articles to Tenter Grounds near Earl of Meath's Liberty, tied him to a post, lashed him until he fainted, tarred and feathered him, and paraded him through principal streets. Great disputes arise daily between volunteers and army officers on Dublin duty; gentlemen in Lord Lieutenant's suite meet insults from populace.