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  • King George III sits at a table approached by his son, the Prince of Wales. Engraving, 1770.
  • The Lord Mayor of London kneels before King George III and presents a remonstrance on behalf of the City of London: the king has no time to read it as he is preoccupied with making buttons. Engraving, 1770.

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    King George III sits at a table approached by his son, the Prince of Wales. Engraving, 1770.

    | Date: [May 23 1770] | Reference: 583874i
    • Books

    Gesundheit und Krankheit im Spiegel von Petitionen an den Landtag von Baden-Württemberg 1946 bis 1980 / von Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach.

    Hähner-Rombach, Sylvelyn, 1959- | Date: 2011
    • Pictures

    The submission of four petitions against the Convention of Cintra. Etching by J. Gillray.

    James Gillray | Date: [1830] | Reference: 585548i
    • Ephemera

    Age of consent emergency- your last chance to act : write for the right to equality : sign the Stonewall postal petition for an equal age of consent / Angela Mason, Stonewall for lesbian and gay equality.

    | Date: [1999?]
    • Ephemera

    Advice to the Kentish long-tails : by the wise men of Gotham, in answer to their late sawcy petition to the parliament ... signed by the mayor, aldermen, and the Common-Council;all the inhabitants, both men and wpomen, and children, that could make their marks, at the quarter sessions holden at Gotham, in comitatu Essex, the 12th of May.

    Tom Brown | Date: [1701?]
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