Prices of Stock and Scandals Across a City Market
Wrecks, drownings, thefts, and frauds color this July 1734 digest from Norwich Ipswich and Edinburgh. Capt Roby abandons wreck. a boy drowns after a boat overturns. a baker and church warden are fined for bread weight fraud. a pretender to a Navy title is seized. Mayor Vere stands for Parliament amid flood chaos and social tension.
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Roby
Bath
Bridgwater
Tolzey
Warwickshire
Norwich
Fox
Thomas Vere
Walter Bacon
Monuments of English Kings Foretold in Anjou Nunnery Choir
The notice advertises eight engraved monuments with epitaphs for English kings, to be bound after the reigns, with portraits and ornaments designed by Gravetort and engraved by skilled craftsmen. It lists locations in Worcester, Gloucester, Westminster, Canterbury, and Westminster Abbey, with portraits of Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, and references Rapin’s History of England.
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Enezano
Gravetort
Rapin
England
Henry V
Richard I
Fonteveraud
Anjou
Fohn
Worcesters
Edward II
Gloucester
Edward
Richard III
Vertuz
N. Tinvatry
M. A. Price
Picures
Dialogues on Pleasures of the Understanding
This Day is published dedicated to the Prince of Wales. A dialogue in the manner of Plato argues the superiority of understanding pleasures over senses. Printed for T. Cooper in Pater-noster Row. Also offered are I A Dialogue on Beauty and II A New Adventure of Telemachus.
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Heigham
Ipswich
George Blazebey
Scarlet
Olchester
St. Osyth
Hythe Bridge
Green-street
Theald Meadows
Clark
Hythe
Canterbury
Barham
Williams
Plato
T. Cooper
Pater-nofter-Row
Telemachus
Madame de Rabutin Chantel
Marchioness de Sevigne
Countess de Grignan
The
Hague
Price
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Edinburgh
Bec
John Kirkaldy
Dundas
Arniston
London
Mr. Willson
Dundee
M‘intosh
Errol
South Sea
Bank
York Buildings
India
Custom-house
the Honourable Commissioners of His Majesty’s Customis, &c
Geneva
King’s Ware-house
N.B
King’s Warehouse
the Prince of Wales
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