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Sat 11 June
THE QUEEN ESCAPES ASSASSINATION
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On Monday, the 6 inst., a meeting of the Corporation and other inhabitants, was
held in the Town Hall, to address her Majesty on her providential escape from
assassination. The Alderman having been called on to take the Chair, briefly stated the
object of the meeting, which he had convened without the formality of a requisition,
that he might give the inhabitants of this ancient town, situated so near the residence
of Sovereign, an earlier opportunity of testifying their loyalty and attachment to her
Majesty’s person, and to offer their humble congratulations, on her happy deliverance
from danger.
The Rev. Thomas Morres then proposed the following dutiful address:--
“To the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty”
“We, your Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Alderman, Burgesses, and other
inhabitants of the Town of Wokingham, in the County of Berks, beg to approach your
Majesty, with sincere and heartfelt expressions of our deep abhorrence at the late
atrocious and treasonable attempt against your Majesty’s person. By the merciful
interposition of Divine Providence, your Majesty’s life has again been preserved from
the hand of the assassin, and in tendering our devoted congratulations to your
Majesty, we cannot more effectually evince our gratitude than by offering, at the
Throne of Grace, our humble thanks to Almighty God, for this instance of his
goodness to this favoured nation; and our prayers that He, in whose hands are the
issues of life and death, may extend, for a long period of years, your Majesty’s happy
reign, over a loyal and , united people.
Mr. Heelas, sen., briefly seconded the Address.
A resolution was then passed, proposed by Mr. Soames, and seconded by Mr.
Creaker, “that the Address should be engrossed on vellum, and signed by the chief
Magistrate, in the name of the meeting, and forthwith transmitted to the Right. Hon.
Lord Braybrooke, the High Steward of the Town, requesting his Lordship to present it
to her Majesty, at an early period.”

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Sat 25 June
THE COINAGE
The Lords of the Privy Council held a meeting on Wednesday morning in the office
of the Comptroller-General of the Exchequer, for the trial of her Majesty’s coins in
the pix of the Mint. The Lord Chancellor charged the jury (composed of goldsmiths),
relative to their assay of the specimens of the different coinages, gold and silver,
deposited in the pix of the Mint since the last trial. At the conclusion of his address,
his Lordship delivered the trial plates to the jury and appointed four o’clock, in the
House of Lords, to receive their verdict, should they, by that time, have finished the
assaying of all the coinages. At six o’clock the jury proceeded to the residence of the
Lord Chancellor, in Great George Street, Hanover-square, and delivered the following
verdict to his Lordship:--“That they, the jury, found in one or two instances slight
deviation from the weight prescribed, but it was within the allowance made in the
Mint indenture bearing date April 17.” The Lord Chancellor then ordered the verdict
of the jury to be recorded in the usual form. The foreman of the jury invited the Lord
Chancellor and all the Privy Councillors present to dine with the Goldsmith’s
Company, in their hall, in the evening.

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