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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On February 11, Britain observed a general fast day. The King and Royal Family attended service at St. James's Chapel Royal. Peers were at Westminster Abbey, Commons members at St. Margaret's Church. Lord Mayor and officials went to St. Paul's. Officers closed 70 open shops; two Quakers resisted, one hiring help to comply, the other facing mob vandalism to his shop windows.
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- The House of Peers were at Westminster Abbey. The Speaker of the House of Commons and upwards of 200 Members of that House, were at the Church of St. Margaret Westminster.
- The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs, went to St. Paul's in their black gowns.
-- In the morning yesterday the Lord Mayor sent the city marshal and several other officers to different parts of this city to shut up such shops as they found open, which accordingly they did to the number of 70; but in Bishopgate street one of the scrupulous people called Quakers would not permit the officer to shut it up; but notwithstanding his obstinacy to the chief magistrate's servant, he was obliged soon after, by the gathering of the populace about his door, to go out and hire a man to shut it for him.
-- An obstinate Quaker in the borough of Southwark, would not shut up his shop, on which a mob assembled and broke every pane of glass in the windows of the front of his house.
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London
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February 11
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70 shops closed; one quaker shop in bishopsgate forced to close by hiring help after crowd pressure; quaker shop in southwark had all front windows broken by mob.
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Britain observed a general fast day on February 11. The King and Royal Family attended a sermon by the Dean of Christ Church at St. James's Chapel Royal. The House of Peers attended Westminster Abbey. Over 200 House of Commons members, led by the Speaker, attended St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs attended St. Paul's in black gowns. The Lord Mayor ordered officers to close open shops, succeeding with 70. In Bishopsgate Street, a Quaker refused but later hired someone to close it due to a gathering crowd. In Southwark, another Quaker refused, leading a mob to break all front window panes of his house.