France and Britain had been at war since the first of February, and the fast was held for the sake of the war. Church of England
bishops composed a form of prayer for the occasion...
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30 December 1779: Christopher Wyvill, a conservative supporter...
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30 December 1779
Christopher Wyvill
, a conservative supporter of parliamentary reform fuelled by a sense of the interests of the propertied gentry, held a meeting of about six hundred men at York assembly rooms, which resolved to...