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J Stafford Smith

outside John Lever's bookshop on Broker Row

An outside staircase leads to a balcony on the first floor

'The Merry MilkMaid'

Patriotic-Petitions on the Convention mayor J Stafford Smith'Patriotic Petitions on the Convention', 1808. Four scenes: top left The Cockney Petition; top right The Westminster Petition; bottom left The Chelmsford Petition; bottom right The Middlesex Petition. A satire on the Convention of Cintra of 1808, which permitted the French to withdraw their surrounded troops from Portugal unmolested and was seen as a national disgrace back in Britain.

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