King’s Printing House volume presented to ministers saga
The King receives Volume LI of the Ordinances of the Kings of France from M Aniffon director of the King's Printing House. The King presents two copies to every Minister and Secretary of State. A bishop appeals in criminal causes before Parliament. May 27 news items from Falmouth and Liverpool list arrivals and ships in port including the Leviathan and Endeavour as well as multiple trade vessels.
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M. Aniffon
King
France
St. Flour
Falmouth
Greenstead
London
Jane
Swanzey
Ditto
Vaughan
Prince Frederick Pacquer
Lovell
Lisbon
Windhard
Liverpool
Leviathan
Bennet
Virginia
Mary
Anne
Winfield
Barbadoes
Lively
Cullum
Jamaica
Dartmouth
Endeavour
Bowen
Sligo
Deal
Hhis Majesty
Salisbury
London Hope
Annis
Philadelphia
Prince of
William
Hogg
Bristol
Friendship
Akers
Malaga
Rofe
Thomas
Bilboa
Thradshall
Moor
Dublin
Surrey
Morison
Belvedere
Oliver
New York
Lyon
Truelove
Lillingston
St. Christophers
Pearl
Roberts
Oporto
Kerfoor
Tryal
Clarke
Guinea
James and Mary
Balchin
East Indies
Barlow
Gallipoly
Westford
Se. Christophers
Gravesend
Clarendon
Utber
Matthew
Hayward
Canett
Don Francisco
Salter
Berry
Boyton
Dunkirk
Robinson
Kerfoot
Royal Residence Prepared for The Queen's Absence
London reports that a Board of General Officers will meet at the Horse Guards for Special Affairs. Orders from His Majesty's Board of Works direct preparations of the Royal Palace at Kensington for the reception of the Queen and Royal Family during the King’s absence abroad. A dispatch from Spain arrives. Mrs Holmes dies in Southgate. Miss Jackson dies at Horsham. A highway robbery on Finchley Common yields a gold watch seven guineas and silver, as two men are committed to Newgate for robberies.
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Horse Guards
Board of Works
Royal Palace
Kensington
Ter
Duke of Newcastle
Keene
Spain
Holmes
Southgate
Miss Jackson
Horsham
Finchley Common
Newgate
Justice Jones
Death of Rev Thomas Boston Minister of Beverick
Edinburgh viewed the death of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Boston, minister at Beverick, as a highly pious and distinguished figure. The article then shifts to a financial market update listing various South Sea, Bank, India, Royal Assurance, and York Buildings securities with prices and yields.
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Thomas Boston
Beverick
South Sea
Million Bank
India
Royal Assurance
London AG
York
Prem
York Buildings Company Announces Semiannual Annuity Payments
The York Buildings Company at Winchester street announces the half year annuity due at Lady Day last will be paid starting Thursday June 1 from ten to one in the forenoon and every Thursday thereafter the same hours A nominee must be identified to avoid imposition and if the nominee does not appear the recipient must file an affidavit that the named beneficiary in the annuity bond was living on March 25 1732.
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The
York Buildings Company
Notice of Brandy Sale At Seething Lane London
Tuomas Exrys a French wine merchant in Seething Lane Tower Street London advertises imported neat brandy at 6s 6d per gallon cash with at least 5 gallon lots. He claims no adulteration and plans a large future parcel arrival to be rafted on the Keys with ongoing supply. He will attend daily at his Seething Lane house noon to twelve to one thirty and at Fom's Coffee House in Cornhill.
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Spring Gardens
Vaux Hall
Nise
Powell
Gloucester
St. James’s Street
Worsdale
Marybone Street
Crawford
Temple Bar
Cornhill
N. B
Westminster
Lambeth
Gratis
Tuomas Exrys
Seething-Lane
Tower-Stret
London
Brandies
Ereys
Seething Lane
Jobe
Fom
Cornhbul
This Day is Published A Letter on Immortality of Fornication
A dated eighteenth century pamphlet by Anthony HolsRoux, rector of Waltham Parva in Essex, titled This Day is Published A Letter to the Author of Christianity as Old as the Creation on the Immortality of Fornication, with remarks on Jephthah’s Vows and Israel borrowing jewels from Egypt. Printed for J. and J. Knapton in St Paul’s Churchyard. price 1s. Also available Remarks on a book entitled Christianity as old as the Creation by John Jackson.
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Jephthah
Israel
Egypt
Anthony HoLsRoux
Waltham Parva
Essex
J. Knapton
St. Paul’s Church-yard
John Jackson
Roslington
Yorkshire
Wintton’s Hospital
Leicester
A Plain Method of Christian Devotion Translated by Fleetwood
An advertisement list lines several religious works printed for sale at F. Walthoe in Cornhill. It touts A Plain Method of Christian Devotion translated from French by Fleetwood, plus a catalog of 11 other works with editors and editions noted, including sermons, dialogs on eloquence, and defenses of Christianity, all priced or described for purchase. The longItem includes minor misspellings and archaic typography, reflecting an 18th century bookseller page.
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Jurieu
Fleetwood
Evy
D W Fleetwood
F. Walthoe
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
M. Feneton
Cambridge
French Academy
W. Stivinson
Stevinson
Hereford
Bihop
Nicnols
Rysten
Rymer
Abelord Edicion
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Edinburgh
York Buildings
Winchester-street
King’s Theatre
Satoray
Lucius Papirius
Haymarket
His Majesty
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