Humble Addresses to the King and Queen Amid Public Cheers
Sunday and Tuesday notices summarize Dorset county meetings led by the High Sheriff approving addresses to the King and Queen for the King’s recovery. The London Gazette style boasts a grand royal eulogy by Sir W Appleby. The item also notes Mrs Siddons lottery luck, Spitalfields weavers at work, and various court actions including a portrait painter charging for mending a black eye and a murder confession at Oakham. Also reports Cambridge horse case verdicts, and executions at Oakham and Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford
Dorset
Dorchefor
London Gazette
Durham
Sir W. Appleby
Great Britain
Isles
Europe
Chatham
Siddons
Spittlefields
King’s Bench
William Weldon
Richard Weldon
Freeman
Baker
Edith
Weston
Oakham
Cambridge
Justice Grofe
Bellamy
Wisbech
Jenkinson
London
John Bridger
Wm. Dungan
Quin
Munso
Winchester
Bankruptcy of Livesey and Co at the Court of Chancery
In a crowded Court of Chancery session, Messrs Allen and Co petitioned to prove bills of exchange under bankruptcy against Livesey and Co. The Attorney General stated Allen and Co and Livesey and Co had traded extensively, with Livesey drawing bills to a London firm payable to a fictitious person and depositing them with Allen and Co in exchange for good bills. The Commissioners refused to allow proof under the Livesey and Co bankruptcy order, suggesting the bills became due after the bankruptcy, with further objections over payable dates and arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goth
Court of Chancery
Messrs. Alen and Co
Livesey and C
Allen and Co
Manchester Bank
Livesey and Co
Commission of Livesey and Co
Babyindor
Pepe Salen
Legal dispute over usury and forged bills in bankruptcy case
The Attorney General and counsel debated whether a commission charge by Livesey and Co. was usurious in a case involving forged bills drawn on themselves and indorsed by a country bank. The Lord Chancellor ordered a full fact state for a jury trial, while other items describe a daring theft near Fleet Street, various obituaries, and notices, all reflecting a busy period in law and public life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen and Co
Livesey and Co
Manchester
London
Pigott
Stanley
Maidstone
St. Dunstan’s Church
Fleet-ftreetr
Aldgate
Fetter- Lane
Plough Court
Fetter-Lane
Lord Stratford
St. James’s Square
Morrington
Hood
Hastings
Covent Garden
Human remains found in field vault near Fovant
Salisbury March 29 a horse fell into an arched vault in a field used by Osmund Martin's team and bones of a human person were discovered in the vault with no clear identification. Gloucestershire March 23 Duke of Beaufort Marquis Worcester Hon George Berkeley and others signed congratulatory addresses to the Majesties at Booths Hall. The Mayor Aldermen Dean Clergy and city inhabitants likewise gathered at Booth Hall to sign addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
Osmund Martin
Fovant
Duke of Beaufort
Marquis of Worcester
Geo
Fire-Works Display at Stephen's Green Dublin
A massive crowd gathered at Stephen's Green for an outdoor fire works show. Lord Lieutenant arrived to a Royal salute, followed by 1,500 Royal Artillery troops and extensive firework displays including Catherine Wheels and thousands of rockets lighting the sky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Stephen’s Green
Royal Artillery
Anecdote of a Black Servant in Frosty Morning
A Yorkshire gentleman long ago brought home a fable servant from the East Indies who washed at a trough by the pump and did not know frost. On a cold morning he touched the water and found it congealed, then rushed to his master crying, maffer! maffer! de water be asleep dis morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Indies
Chippenham
Thomas Newcombe
Wiltshire
Proposal to move Scilly lighthouse to prevent shipwrecks
A5 urges printers to report and press for removing the current lighthouse on Scilly and placing a new beacon on Westernmortlands island, with a possible third light elsewhere. It argues many ships have been lost due to mistaken identity with Eddistone, condemning the cost as a reason to act and urging humane policy to save lives and national wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scilly
London
Curling
Westernmortlands
A. B
One General Standard of Weights and Measures Proposed
A plea for a uniform weights and measures standard across Britain. A letter transmitted by Sir J R Minger to magistrates in cities towns and boroughs calls for parliamentary action to grant powers for forms of regulation and to promote a unified system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R.minger, Bart
Great-Britain
House of Commons
Mary Queen of Scots at Drury Lane Prompts Mixed Reception
A new tragedy Mary Queen of Scots by Hon. Mr. St. John opened at Drury Lane with a favorable reception. It covers Mary’s capture at Scroope House, her imprisonment, the Norfolk affair, and the Fotheringay execution, including Protestant tensions in France. Epilogue by Mrs. Siddons humorously contrasts past and present boxing rage. Royal visitors attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Smith
Pembroke College
Sarum
Marritep
Charles Dewe
St. Mary Hall
Oxford
Priscilla Justice
Sutton Courtney
Berks
Kingston Upon Thames
John Bateman
The
Royal Artillery
Ann Blair Hardwick
Kington
Thomas Dew
Portland Place
Styleman
Kingstend
Norfolk
Henry Wilmot
Farnborough Place
Barbarina Ogle
Chaloner Ogle
Lord Lindores
Jane Reeve
Sir Thoma Reeve
Hackney
Gatfield
Gedaliah Gatfield
Macdonald
Wavy
Chelsea
Pimlico
River’street
Bath
Wm. Semple
Barnard
Warlingham
Surry
Thomas Brathwaite
St. John’s College
Lewes
Daniel Burn
Adelphi Hotel
John Gregory
Leicester Journal
Allerman
Dublin
Owen Wynne
Sligo
Peter Trowbridge
Kenn
Devon
Lord Anson
Lord Spencer Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton
Foot Guards
St. James’s Square
Thomas Osborne
Duke of Leeds
Marquis of
Carmarthen
Earl of
Danby
Biddle
Glocester
Woodmancot
Glocestershire
Frances Cocks
Cheltenham
Cocks’s Hall
Kent
Edward Whitehead
Bolton
Moors
County of Lancaster
Mary Queen of Scots
Duke of Norfolk
Mary
Elizabeth
Queen of Scots
France
St. John
Stuart
Memorial verse on Newcombe the Wiltshire clothier and lovesick lines
A Tomb tone fragment from Chippenham praising Thomas Newcombe famed Wiltshire clothier. It juxtaposes his modest commerce with a moral stance, then shifts to romantic verses about beauty and deceit. The piece includes lines about truth, beauty, and desire.
Night of Tragedy: Woman of the Town Found Dead
A mournful verse laments a woman found dead, exploring neglect, parental sorrow, and public pity. It questions who protected her and memory, noting a harsh fate, lost virtue, and relief through death, while calling for compassionate response to her plight.
MATERIA MEDICA by William Cullen printed in Edinburgh
Elegant 3 volume quarto edition advertised by C. Elliot Edinburgh and Elliot and Kay London. Includes first lines of Practice of Physic and other Cullen works. Lists fellowships and societies and multiple related medical texts available from the author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Cullen
University of Edinburgh
Scotland
Royal College Ofhysicians of Edinburgh
Royal Societies of London
Ofdinburgh
Royal Society of Medicine
Pans
Royal College of Physicians of Madrid
American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia
Medical Society of Cenhagen
Medical Society of Dublin
Royal Medial
Royal Physico- Medical Societies of
Edinburgh
C. Elliot
Elliot and Kay
Somerset-Place
Strand
London
Bell
Hamilton
Smellie
Gregorii
Haymans Maredants Drops Cure for Sciurvy Humour
A testimonial letter from 1789 extols Hayman drops for obstinate leg humours described as scorbutic. Letters from Preston and Adams praise rapid relief after small bottle courses. The advert lists prices five shillings sixpence and one guinea per bottle and notes stamp-duty labeling.
Coltsfoot medicine praised for coughs and lung ailments
An 18th century advertisement extols Coltsfoot tincture for coughs asthma and consumption. It claims rapid relief breathing widening chest and comforting the elderly, with widespread distribution through James Ryan Bristol Francis Newbery and a long list of retailers across towns and cities.
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Britannia
Hibernia
John Riggs Miller
Country News
Drury-Lane
Ben Johnson
Big Ben
Humphries
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Sheridas
Mrs. Fitzherbert
Westminster
Mrs. Armstead
Genial Burgoyne
Thame
Materia Medica
Hayman
Mr. Hayman
Golden Square
Tam
Preston
Hitchen
Ann Swain
Herts
James Meers
H.tchen
Adams
Shatubury
Dorfer
T. Adams
Shaftsbury
Garden Square
GopEn Square
Honourable Commissioners of Stamps
Bristol
Meir, Rudhall and Co
H. Brown
Quay-sheet
W. Browne
Tolzey
Cruttwell
Attwood
Cutler
Chipenham
Forty
Coltsfoot
James Ryan
Sureton
Dicuroyn - Street
Francis Newsery
St. Paul’s
Newbery
J.rudhall & Co
E.shiercliff
W. Bulpin
J. Lloyd
J. Norton
E. Palmer
Wells and
Arthur
S. and
J. Fitchen
W. Pine
S. Bonner
M. Thompson
Mrs. White
Padley
Swansea
Eaton
Narberth
Griffiths
Alandilo
Vawr
Beadles
Pontypool
Axbridge
Smith
Bridgewater
Symes
Hazard
Angel
Cardiff
Willett
Miss Downs
Chard
Wellington
Cirencester
Smith Devizes
Broughtoh
Frome
Daniel i
Raikes
Haverfordwest
Potter
Neath
Robion Apdi Rees
Pembroke
Wilmot
Pontypaul
Beatles
Taunton
Toulmig
Tetbury
Ben
Warminster
Butt
Wells
Bill
Wriington
Morse
Wincaunton
Barrett Vand’ Co
Wootten-under- Edge
Bence
King
Newbery & Medicines
Aynes
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