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1732 saw a certain amount of unrest in Chester centered around the Mayoral elections - sporadic disorders culminated in a clash in Bridge Street in early October between a Whig mob (allegedly reinforced with disguised soldiers, revenue officers, and Liverpool sailors) and Tory supporters who included Welsh miners. The latter came off worse, and the Whigs, suspecting that Tory aldermen were admitting more freemen after dark, broke into and wrecked the Pentice. The mayor called for dragoons from Warrington to help restore order and appointed c. 270 special constables. Fifty dragoons arrived on foot and according to "a letter from a freeman of the city of Chester to his friend in London" (text [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LGRpAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA27 here]) were loadged in Hoole, with 25 of them quartered at the Ermine (then in the hands of a John ArtinstallArtingstall) and the remainder at a neighbouring house in Flookersbrook.