Curious wager on national debt notes inspires bold claim
A coffee-house dispute over banknote weight leads to a wager that ten pound notes could outweigh the national debt. A tally shows 512 notes weigh one pound and forty seven thousand two hundred sixty five pounds for the debt, split among a hundred men.
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Bank of England
Mr. Hartley
Putney-common
London
Norfolk
O’brien
Windsor
Culnbrook
Mr. O' Brien
Mills Elizabeth F
Bland
Gretna Green
Northamptonshire
Owever
Dublin
Salisbury Fair
Ligney Creuglyn
Aran Fowddery
North Wales
Carlile
Meyer
Arnedem
Carlisle
Old Bailey
Robert Radcliff
Guernsey
George II
Prices of cheese at Winchester fair and burglaries near Kirkby-Lonsdale
At Winchester fair the general cheese prices ranged from 25s to 95s per cwt with some as high as 38s noted. In Newcastle, near Kirkby-Lonsdale, John Glover’s house was robbed of ninety guineas and silver items. a thief confessed, remorse led him to return most items, but one guinea was spent and he escaped Appleby gaol. In Worcester, Wigley was nominated for Parliament, receiving applause. Shrewsbury residents planned a New Church site and agreed to build on the old location.
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Winchester
Newcastle
John Glover
Fleshbeck
Kirkby-Lonsdale
William Moore
Lancashire
Appleby
Birmincham
St. Chad
Shrewsbury
Thomaso
Isabella
Carlos
Anna
Juan
Old Sturmwald
Sturmwald
Thomase
Builiofo
Biliofo
Bhiliofo
Biliofa
Iabella
Guzman
Bankrupt List and Theatricals at Drury Lane
A newspaper notes a long list of bankrupts by year from 1740 to the present week, analyzing rising totals alongside population and trade. It also reviews a Petty German farce at Drury Lane, detailing mistaken loves, disguises, and a comic ending.
Gentlemen of the Law Historic Volume Notice
On Saturday the 8th of this month a new octavo volume will be published at price six shillings to boards. This item marks the first volume in a projected series in legal literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Walter Williams
Inner Temple
London
His Majesty’s Law Printers
G. Kearsneux
Fleet Street
Kearsley
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Wells and Arthur
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