Local creditors meet after banking-house distress
Coventry July 1s. At a meeting this week of the creditors of a banking-house in this town the most satisfactory terms were agreed by the principals and creditors. They expect full reimbursement in a short time, amid widespread trade distress. Shrewsbury July 25. A public thanksgiving followed the St Chad’s Church collapse. Degenerate fire at Kendal endangers gunpowder, causing damage and injuries. Oxford July 26. An inquest at Mapledurham finds murder by a mother of a three-year-old, who died from arsenic. Reaping July 26. A mother’s crime is suspected. the child dies. Donnington, Snelmore common, July 26. Three children smothered in a sand-pit accident. Oxford Castle July 26. James Bye commits a violent assault on a maid, planning forced marriage or murder. he is imprisoned. Northhampton July 26. George Lisnel shot during warrant service. Gordon and mother in gaol. Saintbury July 28. Wheat harvest reported.
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Atia
Coventry
Thomas Guiffies
Edmunds
Wolverley
Worcestershire
Merlrs
Dodgson
Kendal
Shrewsbury
St. Chad’s Church
St. Mary’s Church
Mr. Stedman
St. Chad’s
Oxford
Mapledurham
Johnston
Benton
Donnington
Newbury
Thomas Mercer
James Bye
Richard Hayward
Vanderflegen
Vanderslegen
NowrhameTon
Geo. Lisnel
Pattithal
Gordon
Romer
Pethit Peigh
Apollo Lodge of Free Masons
Devizes
Grand Lodge of England
Duke of Cumberland
G. M
St. John’s Church
James Lediard
Goss
Salisbury
Andrew Bayntun
Walter Flay
Blandford
Hanters
Mr. Clarke
Merry Andrew
Cockle
Chiverell
Pitton
Joseph Farmer
Forsyth
Fisherton Gallows
Thomas Casfleman
Robert Budden
Ss. Giles’s
Dorsetslire
Malmsbury Fair
Casfleman
Birn Mincham
Warwick
J. Carles
Samuel Foster
Ann Rogers
Hammon
Lowe
Gold
Goad
Hadley
Towers
Brian M’mahon
James Merrill
Read Hull
Worcester
Lewes
Wm. Sill
Horsham
Lord Sheffield
Weather and harvest news and shipwreck tale from Pelew Islands
A long notice reports fine weather aiding harvest, with corn, barley and fruit crops improving. also details a Freemasons lodge constitution in Devizes, local races, accidents and executions nearby. then a Pelew Islands shipwreck tale recounts Captain Wilson's crew aiding natives, building a vessel, and the Malay speaking guide, ending with the king's son dying of smallpox.
Downland Sheep Breed Boosts Wool Output and Quality
A report from Newent on a breed of sheep attracting admiration for knowledge from commercial research notes it shears over eight pounds of wool per animal, far above the local Downs average of two pounds, promising large gains in both quantity and quality. A separate item from Newent dated July 28 records two boys drowning after falling into a large pool while playing nearby.
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Newent
Letter from 1657 by Lefbury’s Minister of Lefbury aged 110
Extract from a 1657 letter by Patrick Makel Wian, Minister of Lefbury, describing extreme old age. He notes a decayed fight improved with age, claims a slender habit, moderate diet, and hunger as the best sauce. Lefbury near Alnwick, Northumberland, is cited and warns fatness as a distemper shortening life.
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Lefbury
Patrick Makel Wian
Alnwick
Northumberland
Wool Bill Enacts Strict Controls on Wool Exports
The wool bill, now law, bans exporting five sheep from Great Britain or Jersey with forfeiture of the sheep and vessel. Offenders face three months in prison and 3 per sheep or double forfeitures on a subsequent offence. Conveyors pay 3s per lb of wool or gip value, with wool and vessel forfeited. Excise officers may seize wool near sea or navigable rivers for export. Wool moving near the sea before sunrise within five miles is forfeited. packing must use large ramped pack cloths marked wool. Those packing contrary faces penalties. informers receive the wool. Justices publish seizures and levy penalties by distress.
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Great-Britain
Jersey
Officers of Excise
Harvest Laws for the Poor and Stranger in the Field
A scripture note quotes Leviticus and Deuteronomy urging farmers to leave gleanings for the poor and strangers. The passages instruct not to return for forgotten sheaves so the vulnerable may share in the harvest and be blessed in all labor.
A Story of Marshal Luxembourg’s Painter Prank
A tale portrays Marshal Luxembourg arranging a painterly joke to woo a mistress. He shows her a portrait she condemns as unlike a human face, yet with the painter’s aid fabricates a likeness by inserting his own image into a canvass. The ruse exposes prejudice and the role of context in art and nature.
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Marshal Luxembourg
Eving
Paris
Dalbys Carminative advertised for infant bowel disorders
An 18th century advertisement promotes Dalbys Carminative sold by J Ruddall Co and H Browns in Bristol. It includes a testimonial by William Fawkner Brass-Founder describing rapid relief in a two month old with griping pains and bloody stools, claiming safety and efficacy for wind and convulsions in infants and cholicky complaints in adults.
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Dalby
William Fawkner
Shoelane
Dr James's Powder Promoted for Childbed Fevers and Colds
The powder’s excellence in fevers, rheumatism, smallpox, measles, pleurisy, erysipelas, and inflammatory disorders is widely known. It is a proven remedy when timely used in puerperal fever, with five to six grains every six hours, increasing as needed, sometimes fast. Accounts from high ranks show recovery even in delirium. It is also best for colds in lying-in and for milk fever, advisable to have ready for emergencies.
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James
Cephalic Snuff touted as head ailment remedy
An old patent medicine notice extols Cephalic Snuff as a remedy for head and migraine disorders. It claims to relieve drowsiness giddiness and vapours improve dim sight aid recent deafness and aid hysteric and paralytic conditions. It also suggests it protects against infections when used by travelers and counteracts harm from common snuffs.
Oriental Vegetable Cordial Promises Fast Relief
Unerring twenty year East experience and five years in Britain back a cordial touted as a remedy for stomach and bowel disorders from irritation and indigestion to excess. It claims rapid relief from cholicky pains and rheumatic complaints and offers a London Gazette cited treatise for verification with notes by the Faculty on cures in desperate maladies.
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East
Great Britain
London Gazette
Remarkable Cure Verses Merchant Drops 1787 Letter
A fragmentary 1787 letter to Mr Haynan at Great Mambro street London relates a November 1785 knee pain swelling and corbutic blotches. The writer credits Marchant's Drops with rapid relief after eight bottles and urges others with similar disorders to use the remedy. Witnesses Willis Fuller and Joseph Poole are noted as sellers in Newbery.
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Haynan
Treet
Londass
Newbury
Berks
Funes
Marchant
Forestrock
Tony
Tam
Willis & Fuller
Joseph Poole
Newbery
Ovoner & Appresser
Dr James's Analeptic Pills For Stomach Disord ers
A Victorian style advertisement touts Dr James's Analeptic Pills as universal remedies for stomach and bowel disorders, rheumatic pains, and headaches. The copy claims longevity, quick relief from bile and gout symptoms, and strengthened digestion with no diet change. It mentions long usage and age, with testimonials of efficacy.
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Pelew Islands
Pelew
Portsmouth
East Long
London
China
Wilson
East India Company
Bengal
King of Polew
England
T. Becket
Mestrs. Dicey and Co
Dicey and Co
Bow-Church Yard
Pall- Mall
J. Rudhall and Co
E Shiercliff
W. Browne
W. Bulgin
J. Norton
J. Lloyd H. Brown
E. Palmer
Bristol
W. Tickell
Francis Newsery
St. Paul’s
Cheapside
N. B
J. Rudhall & Co
E. Shiercliff
W. Brown
J. Lloyd
H. Brown
Wells
Arthur
S. and
J. Fitchen
W. Pine
T. Mills
S. Bonner
M.thompson
Mr. Newbery
Leake
Little Wenlock
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
Pilula Salutaria
Ian
Henry Bateman
I. Taylor
Corporation of Surgeons
New- Bridge - Street
N.B
J. Rudhail & Co
Smallstreet
Quay-street
Cruttwell
Bath
Evill
Bris Ob Key
BEC
Printsng
Kizig
Hayman
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