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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 12, 1730
Page
2
A long list of ships and owners from Barbados Antigua Jamaica Carolina and Bordeaux named alongside court actions and stock prices. The report records an arrest for forging a letter of attorney and notices of royal celebration at Windsor plus local military and civic movements in London. It closes with a Boston advert urging inoculation against smallpox.
In a common council resolution the Worthy Liverymen Henry Raper and James Chambers are named as sheriffs for Middlesex for the ensuing year. It notes their long nomination by lord mayors and records that all sheriff fines will be devoted to building a Mansion House to support the city’s dignity.
Benefit performance for Mr ROBERT S by the Company of Comedians at the Theatre in Goodman's Fields this Friday June 12 presenting The Constan of Couple Or A Trip to the Jubilee with Sir Harry Wildair roles by Giffard Standard Smith and others. Included are singing dancing acts and an epilogue by Penkethman riding on an ass. On Monday the Widow Bewitched will be shown as the fourth day.
The advertisement lists Part IX covering Westmorland to Herefordshire with natural history notes by N Salmon LL.B and publishers J Roberts Warwick Lane and JL Leake Bath. It notes price 1s and availability of earlier parts I to VIII listing counties such as Kent Sussex Surrey Middlesex Essex Suffolk Norfolk Cambridge Huntingdonshire Leicestershire Northamptonshire Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Derbyshire Yorkshire Durham Northumberland Cumberland Warwickshire Staffordshire Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire.
An old advertisement notes Sue publishes a large edition of A Plain Method of Christian Devotion translated from French MS Jurieu by Fleetwood, praising its value and recommending purchase. Also advertised are Nichols's Conference with a Theist and Rymer's General Representation of Revealed Religion with further works listed.
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