[722] See Report of Special Committee on the continued high price of bread, 24 March, 1814.—Journal 88, fos. 262b-268b.
[723] Journal 89, fos. 216b, 217b-219, 237b; Common Hall Book, No. 9, fos. 316-318b.
[724] Journal 89, fos. 242b-244.
[725] Journal 99, fos. 101-105; Journal 100, fos. 113b-115; Journal 117, fos. 225-226; Journal 118, fos. 438b-441.
[726] Journal 90, fo. 124b.
[727] Common Hall Book, No. 9, fos. 343-345, 346b-347.
[728] He had just entered upon his second year of office, and had given no little offence to Lord Sidmouth—at that time high steward of the city and liberties of Westminster, as well as secretary of state for the home department—by returning from Westminster after being sworn in, through the streets of Westminster instead of by water, without having given notice to the high steward. Wood justified his conduct to Sidmouth in a letter in which he protested against the claim of the high steward to dictate to the lord mayor, the city of London, and the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, the particular course they were to take in going or returning on the occasion of the lord mayor being sworn before the Barons of the Exchequer.—Journal 90, fos. 348b-349b.
[729] Journal 90, fos. 345b-348.
[730] Common Hall Book, No. 9, fo. 348b-350b.
[731] Repertory 221, fos. 6-18.