England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . ession of theHouse of Hanover to the English throne, and the news-papers of that period contain frequent paragraphs de-tailing satirically their pretended exploits. As late asthe year 1731, Reads Weekly Journal^ of September11, announces, that, On Tuesday, the Cripplegate,Whitechapel, St. Clements, and Southwark grenadiersrendezvousVl in Bridgewater Gardens; from whencethey marched through the city, and afterwards at-tacked Cripplegate, both posterns, and Great Moor-gate, with their usual br
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . ession of theHouse of Hanover to the English throne, and the news-papers of that period contain frequent paragraphs de-tailing satirically their pretended exploits. As late asthe year 1731, Reads Weekly Journal^ of September11, announces, that, On Tuesday, the Cripplegate,Whitechapel, St. Clements, and Southwark grenadiersrendezvousVl in Bridgewater Gardens; from whencethey marched through the city, and afterwards at-tacked Cripplegate, both posterns, and Great Moor-gate, with their usual bravery, and thence proceeded toattack a dunghill near Bunhill Fields, which gloriouslycompleted their exercise of arms.^ We have alreadyseen these domestic troops, in a caricature on the inva-sion of the Pretender, exhibited as loving better theenjoyments of home than the rude service of figure in the last plate of Hogarths series of the« Idle and Industrious Apprentices, and in severalcaricatures of the time. In one of these, in the col-lection of Mr. Burke, (without date or title,) these. iirholl. i. S A. sc. CIT^T T]:HE]D B^1T]D S cndoii:Ri clsard Eentley, 1848. 1740.] CITY TRAINED BANDS. 231 city troops ai)pear, some of them, armed with pipes aswell as guns; others on duty in undress, and somedeficient of legs and large and rather well-drawn caricature, also inthe possession of Mr. Burke,and of which the accompa-nying engraving is a redu-
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