QUEEN ANNE WAS DEAD
It is on record that a certain Mayor of Norwich, about a hundred years ago, called a meeting of the whole Corporation, and addressed them to the following effect ‘ It had long been a matter of suprise to him,’ he said, ‘ considering the length of time since the decease of Queen Anne, that the compliment should still be paid her memory of mentioning her name in all public deeds, etc-., and he wondered at it the more, as every gentleman must agree with him that we never had a more gracious monarch than his present Majesty King George 111. He therefore proposed that in all deeds, charters, and public papers belonging to, and issued from, the borough of Norwich, instead of the usual words Anno Domino , for the future should be substituded Georgo Domino.'
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Wairoa Bell, Volume IV, Issue 155, 22 July 1892, Page 6
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