Description | '... to avert the dreadful calamity of a temporary want of bread at this alarming crisis.'
[During the French Revolutionary Wars in the 1790s there was a shortage of bread and steep price rises.]
Corn Committee members:
John Browne, M.D. Chairman Benjamin Withers, Master Cutler John Greaves, Town Collector James Wheat, Capital Church Burgess Vincent Eyre, esquire Benjamin Wainwright, M.D. William Brightmore, Merchant
Also listed are the names of 78 guarantors. |