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Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various
page 47 of 117 (40%)
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Your correspondent SENEX will find in Malcolm's _Anecdotes of London_ (Vol.
ii., p. 74.), "A summary of the trial of Donald Maclane, on Tuesday last,
at _Guildford Assizes_, for the murder of William Allen, Jun., on the 10th
of May last, in St. George's Fields."

R. BARKER, JUN.

A long account of this lamentable transaction may be found in every
magazine eighty-two years since. The riot took place in St. George's
Fields, May 10. 1768, and originated in the cry of "Wilkes and Liberty."

GILBERT.

[Footnote 1: A foot-note informs us that "a white-wash is put over these
lines between the crotchets."]

[Footnote 2: Dr. Free was of Christ Church, Oxford, and perhaps some of
your readers may know where his biography is.]

* * * * *

MEANING OF "GRADELY."

(Vol. ii., p. 133.)

For the origin of this word, A.W.H. may refer to Brocket's _Glossary of
North Country Words_, where he will find--

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