Cambridge University Prize For Prose On Gaming
A gentleman offers fifty guineas for the best English prose dissertation on the pernicious effects of gaming by any current or former member of the university. Dissertations due May 1 1783 to Mr Merrill in Cambridge, published within two months of adjudication. prize paid on publication. Judges include Bishops of Peterborough and Llandaff and heads of Sidney Jesus Magdalen Colleges. Also notes: Spencer Madan wins Seaton prize for a poem. Northumberland freeholders meeting on representation rejected. musical dispute between Corfe and Parry settled with Parry joining the Subscription Concert.
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Camprince
Merrill
Cambridge
Peterborough
Landaff
Sidney
Jesus
Magdalen Colleges
Seaton
Spencer Madan
Trinity College
Newcastle
Northumberland
Brodie
Satispury
London News Roundup The Hastings Vote And naval notes
Parliament ballot records Hastings 428 for and 73 against as political upheaval unfolds. Eastward ships like the Bombay Castle and Peregrine head to the Western Islands seeking Ville de Paris amid French intercept rumors. Dispatch cites Hector and Ville de Paris chase, with signals of distress and possible fates for Centaur and Gurieu. Exchange rates show Spanish notes at 6 percent discount. Earl of Shelburne meets trades to discuss foreign barley import plans, raising three objections tied to prerogative, recent acts, and session timing.
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Mr. Hastings
India House
Hastings
Bombay Castle
Pegase
Medway
Proselyte
Portsmouth
Ville de Paris
Fea
Ariel
Hector
Cox
Ville de
Corvo
Curgenven
Azores
Centsur
Gurieux
Alcmena
West Indies
Spain
Home Counties
Samuel Whitebread
Alhough
Earl of
Barley Duty and Loans Dominate 1782 Bristol News
In a dense 1782 Bristol record, merchants seek a temporary barley duty fix with bonded payments to the Custom-house while Parliament debates relief. The sheet also notes Mrs Siddons at Drury Lane wages, a Lynn mail robbery by Beeton, coach ambush by highwaymen near London, a Portsmouth fire with arson suspicion, a Bridewell prison breakout, a Letitia Holland note, and a Merchants Hall notice about bonds and annuities with 4 percent interest.
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Beeton
Lynn Mail
Lynne
Way
Sherborne
London
Portsmouth Common
Ingram
Mercer
Harvard
Adams
Baker
Ham
Gauntlet
John Carter
Clerkenwell-Bridewell
New Prison
John Brown
Wm. Mumford
Letitia Holland
Lord Mansfield’s
Corporation-row
St. John’s Street
John Harris
John Bailey
Simon Legg
Christopher Townshend
W. Walker
John Wrinkle
Wm. Singleton
John Hart
John Fitzgerald
Edward Rigby
James Godfrey
Wm. Wood
Bryant Barton
Isaac Warren
Tho. Hartman
Tho. Barnsley
Henry Grey
Tho. Duxon
Achilles Baker
Samuel Davis
Tho
Brignell
Alexander Duff
Collins
John Ryan
Banton
Townsend
Martin
Fitzgerald
Hart
Rigby
Bridewell
S. Worrall
Cures of Cancers by Miss Plunkett in Spirits
Remarkable cures of cancers without incision attributed to Miss Plunkett. Subjects include Mrs Raxworthy of Heytsbury Wilts and Mrs Barty Beckington Somerset with breast cancers and lip cancers. several others named and unnamed report good health after treatment. Miss Plunkett resides opposite Cornwell buildings near Walcot Church Bath.
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Miss Plunkett
Cornwell Buildings
Walcot Church
Bath
Lottery Prospectus for Capital Prizes in November Draw
A historical lottery notice details 14 338 prizes with early drawings and specific prize amounts. Tickets are sold in half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth shares by Meff Richardson and Gooptuck under parliamentary authority. Offices listed in Cornhill Charing Cross Edinburgh and other branches. Prior prize sales noted, tickets stamped as required. no policies or insurances offered.
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Richarpson and Gooptuck
Cornhill
King's Mews
Charing-Cross
White and Mitchel’s
Richardson
Johnsons Pocket Book 1783 features and contents list
An 1783 pocket book advertisement detailing price 2s bound in red leather with pockets for letters. Includes a bank list, a day and night table, laws from the last Parliament, notable events of 1782, marriages births deaths, holidays birthdays, public offices, quadrille derivations, ant destruction method, judge circuits, county housing counts, interest tables, and London bookseller details.
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Johnson
Gentleman’s and Tradesman’s Daily Journal
London
England
Wales
J. Johnson
St. Paul’s Church Yard
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London Gazette
Admiralty Office
Yee Campbell
Newfoundland
Stephens
Viper
Penguin Lexington
Lord Stirling
Junius Brutus
Thorn
Indigo
Hope
Country-News
James Cassin
Small-Street
Bristol
Sea-Mills-Dock
Westbury-upon-Trim
S. Ospornes
Seager
E. Nicuorxs
White-Hart
ATH
Shrewsbury
Holyhead
Castle and Ball
Broad Fireer
Glocester
Tewkesbury
Worcester
Kidderminster
Bridgnorth
Birmingham
Kings-Head
New-street
Englit No
Fiat
R. Hodges
the Strand
Priz
Oco
Chute
Ohnson
Princess Royal of England
Vauxhall
Ranelagh
Lord Howe
Kingston
Jamaica
Richard
Lord Viscount Howe
Port-Royal
European Magazine
London Review
The
Philological Society
John Hunter
Hunter
Great Britain
Paris
Geneva
Ocelius
Sea-bright
Earl of Chatham
Bishop of
Llandaff
Mr. Nicholson
de Lorme
Europe
Maejor R. Gardiner
Jebb
John Fielding
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