Birth and society notes from a London paper
On the sixteenth infant the Dutchess de Boufflers safely delivered a son at St Sulpice with the Duke de Villeroy as godfather and the Mar shalers de Boufflers as godmother. Last week the Marquis de Castellar moved to a house near the Incurables. The Marquis d Ormont, Brigadier, died on the fifteenth at his Norman estate. The Dutchess de Ventadour donated a magnificent white church ornament costing 45000 Livres for the Cordeliers convent, used first on the Feast of the Assumption. Monaco Prince reformed an Independent Company at Monaco. Market: shares fell from 1575 to 1510, rose to 1550. Shipping: Bridgewater and Mary sail for the River. Prince William and Le Thieullier off Dover. Guardsmen cited for neglect of duty. Lord Baltimore hires a Grosvenor Square house. Thomas Bladen follows. Deputy Swetting buried at Bishopsgate. Stock reports show South Sea at 102 3 8 to 103, annuities up, and various bonds and commodities listed.
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2D Regiment of Foot Guards
Lord Baltimore
Grosvenor Square
Thomas Bladen
Bishopsgate Church
Birth of a son at Sir Archer Croft's Kensington home
In London yesterday morning the Lady of Sir Archer Croft, Bart, safely delivered a son at his Kensington Square residence. Sir Archer, long dangerously ill of smallpox, is now recovered. A Board of Treasury will meet at Hampton Court today as it does weekly during the Court's residence. The Solicitor General and Attorney General depart for their seats in Wales and Gloucestershire for six weeks and a fortnight respectively. A General Officers board at Whitehall reports Irish establishment officers ordered to posts. Sir Robert Walpole and Lord Chancellor travel to Hampton Court for public meals twice weekly. Mr Cawdery, a Coleman Street master tailor, died suddenly of an apoplectic fit. Three street robbers were captured after a previous assault in St George's Fields. The 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards mustered at St James's Park and a court martial sat at the Tilt Yard, Whitehall, on three privates.
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Archer Croft
Kensington Square
Archer
Board of Treasury
Hampton Court
Wales
Tis
Glocestershire
Whitehall
Robert Walpole
Ockham
3D Regiment of
His Majesty’s Foot Guards
St. James's Park
Lottery Office Seeks Exact Numbers for Tickets at Jonathan's Coffee House
An advertisement by a printer appointed to the Honourable Commissioners of the Lottery announces daily access to corrected numerical and register books at Jonathan's Coffee House Exchange Alley Cornhill. It offers 6d per ticket for number registration and immediate notices when numbers are drawn, with options for partial tickets and free schemes in English or French.
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Jonathan
Exchange Alley
Cornhill
Great Britain
Fir Post
Guildhall
Vintage Legal Texts on Crown Law and Treason Trials
A catalog of legal works from the late 17th to early 18th century covering trials for high treason and related offenses, with editions and publishers. Includes Hawkins on the Crown, Coxe abridgments, D Anvers, Cler gyman’s Law, and justice of peace guides, among others.
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Serjeant Hawkins
Coxe
Littleton
D’anvers
England
G- DuNcon
Inner-Temple
Buachersy
Justice of Peace
Nexson
Justice of the
S.canter
Inner Temple
Westminster
Books advertised on maritime subjects and trade works
A scanned list advertises maritime and trade books: Burchet's Complete History of Sea Affairs, Mozzoy's De Fure Maritime and Navals Seventh Edition, Woon's Survey of Trade, East India trade views, Dutch trade in world empires, advantages of East India trade, papers on East India trade, and South Sea Company proceedings from 1719 to 1720 with by laws, priced from 3d to 1s 10d. Three more items include charts and Royal Licence.
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Burchet
France
C. Mozzoy
Woon
England
South-Sea Company
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Deal
Diamond
Torrington
Bridgewater
Mary
East India
Prince William
Lethieullier
Dover
N. E
South Sea
Bank
India
London
York Buildings
Welch
John Clife
Honourable Commissioners of the Lottery
Joshua Smith
St. Mary Aldermanbury
St. Mary le Bow
C. Rivington
Bible and Crown
St. Paul’s Churchyard
K. Richard II
K. George I
Walthoe
Royal Exchange
J. Waltioe
Cosmbial
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