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Brongniart's Vegetable Powder and a King's Bench case
An old advertisement defends Brongniart's Vegetable Powder as beneficial for all seeds not just turnips detailing its use for wheat rye barley oats peas beans and for turnips. A London court dispute concerns Mr Shergold of Lombard Street who challenged lottery related penalties but court opinions sided with Shergold and criticized magistrates.
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Brongniart
London
Cocking and Rudhall
Bristol
King’s Bench
Thomas Shergold
Lombard-street
Norwich
Shergold
Mosf
Erskine
Runnington
the Hotwells
Lord Bishop of
Cork
D'Veitdy
Dawson
Col. King
Captain Stubber
Capt. Wingrove
Blackburne
Sheridan
Ballard
Vickell
Senhouse
Keddington
Roebuck
Calhoun
Good Hope
Smith
Clarendon
Ruffel
Friends
Sherry
Jamaica
Union Island
Pocock
St. Vinecents
Cleveland
Deane
Africa
Petersburgh
Sally
Greenaway
Rotterdam
Union
Perkins
Philadelphia
Sophia
Burrows
Maryland
Sisters
Gibbs
New-York
Adamson
Agnau
Galway
Countess O'’Raily
Juliana
Newfoundland
Britannia
Reid
Barbadoes
Caarletta
Thorton
Royal Navy
Bonner
Castle-Gtven
Haverfordwest
Pembrocetlure
George Greaves
Almondsbury
Power
St. Augustine’s Beck
Samuel Fetferits
Redcliffe
Coalbrook Dale
Dale
Severn
Madeley-wood
Hay-lail
Coleford
Tippetts
Tetbury
the Angel
Tippett
Jones
Worcester
Newgate
Easterbrook