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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 12, 1735
Page
2
Freeman argues that rulers who restrain themselves and rulers who gain public affection secure peace. He notes priests and commoners alike valued sovereign health and welfare, following leaders with prayers and mourning them sincerely. A corrupted prince or misguided populace harms the constitution as tyrants do.
London reports two suspected robbers of Sir John Osborne were beset at the Flying Bull near Hinhead Hamp shire after a dawn pursuit. They resisted, shots fired, one man wounded in the groin, both captured with Sir John Osborne’s watch found on them. They await trial at the Old Bailey. Also noted are the induction of Rev Thomas Robinson to Norton’s rectory, a 100 Guinea royal plate horse race won by Apple yard’s Sorrel at Newmarket, and the death of Sir Edward Stradling Bart at St Donet's Castle Glamorganshire.
Yesterday the Duke of Somersets large retinue departed for Newmarket. In Whitehall the Plantation Office saw the death of Bryan Wheelock deputy secretary to the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations. Samuel Gillebrand is slated to succeed Wheelock as deputy secretary, with Israel Hudson moving up as chief clerk. Also listed are prices and bonds for various securities at York Buildings, including Africa and India bonds, Royal Africa, English copper, and exchange discount rates.
Admiralty notice dated April 8 1735 states His Majesty's Ship the Falkland is ordered to Newfoundland. Seamen absent from duty by leave must repair on board at Portsmouth or be removed from the ship's books following Admiralty directions.
Publication notice for a book argued to prevent the increase of Papists, titled A Treatise of Human Reason by Matt T. Carrerp late Master of the Charter-House. Printed for J. Stone near Bedford Row and sold by J. Rozgerts in Warwick Lane, price one shilling.
A long 17th century pamphlet bundle lists works by William Stavenson and Dr Stevenson's sermons and Sacred History, plus Dr Nichols and Armer writings, and includes Secreta Monitfa Societatis, The Jesuits secret instructions. An Amsterdam bookseller controversy is noted about printing The Secret Instructions.
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