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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/891
TitleVerses by Geo. King, West Gate, Newcastle, sent to 'Both Houses of Parliament'
Extent1 item
Date1811
DescriptionRhyming couplets pronouncing his loyalty and steadfastness ending 'I pay my mite uinto the Treasure / With alacrity and pleasure / In acts of loyalty I'm firm and true / What Clayton did you can undo'
5 October 1811
Addressed to the care of the Lord Mayor of London; with 'Refused' written in a different hand

[Probably written by the author of verses KWH/Q/892: could refer to the matter of the keelmen of Tyneside; Nathaniel Clayton was the Town Clerk of Newcastle]
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