Title: The gentlemen, clergy, yeomen and other substantial inhabitants of the borough, neighbourhood and liberty of Ripon, in the West Riding of the county of York, are desired to meet at the town-hall in Ripon, on Thursday the 12th. day of this instant, June, ... for the taking into consideration the proper measures ... to be adopted for the purpose of internal defence and security against invasion and intestine [sic] commotion. ..