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On the Bawdy House Riots of 1668: "'The final assaults came on Wednesday, mainly in the Moorfields area, one report claiming there were now 40,000 rioters - surely an exaggeration, but indicating that abnormally large numbers of people were involved'... Pepys mentions that the riots were perceived as anti-royal demonstrations by working-class apprentices centred on Moorfields, with echoes of the Puritanism of the Cromwellian era. He noted, 'How these idle fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting themselves in pulling down the little bawdy-houses, and did not go and pull down the great bawdy-house at Whitehall'.…" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bawdy_House_Riots_of_1668 Suppose they really are as numerous as that "one report" claimed--and they do exactly what Pepys suggested...
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