Chosen Lord Maior of London

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A complete, very short firsthand report. “Maior” and the author’s own description “a strange absurd Dream” follow the printed edition. The election is a dream event, not a claim that Sewall held that office. The preceding funeral and following weather entries are excluded. “Last night” in the 26 January entry under printed Old Style year 1706/7; the original calendar is retained.

Samuel Sewall (1652–1730), own diary, Diary of Samuel Sewall, vol. II (1699–1714), in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. VI, fifth series, second edition (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1879), Diary, vol. II, printed p. 179. Committee of Publication: George E. Ellis; William H. Whitmore; Henry Warren Torrey; James Russell Lowell (Committee of Publication). Original-edition witness: Internet Archive, Princeton Theological Seminary Library scan. Dates, source spelling and author qualifications retained; descriptive title and navigation metadata added by Synastry.

“Last night” in the 26 January entry under printed Old Style year 1706/7; the original calendar is retained.

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Original nineteenth-century English diary publication, dated from the actual title-page witness rather than the generic archive metadata. The publication predates 1931 and Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) and the original publication committee are long deceased. This uses an expired-US-publication basis, not a modern transcription or new Creative Commons licence; no blanket worldwide grant is asserted. This record's title-page date is 1879; archive metadata's generic 1878 date is not used.

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