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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 29, 1735
Page
2
The author argues that equal legal rights for common people to purchase estates would blemish government. He cites France and Britain where nobles seek political influence, warning against giving estates undue parliamentary power. He urges the commons to safeguard liberty as a birth right and resist vassalage to landowners.
London dispatch reports officers from the Fleet under Sir John Norris repairing ships at Chatham after Black Takes and provisioning with a Mediterranean rendezvous at Spithead. Obituaries note Dame Elizabeth Paxton of Petworth dying at 81 in Brentford. Thomas Clayton of Cripplegate hanged himself. Captain Yoakley’s James from South Carolina delivered rice and raw silk from Georgia. ongoing Georgia trade with the Prince of Wales expected to tar. A coach bound for Oxford was stopped by four footpads at New Bond Street.
Report notes a pistol fired at a gentleman with small shot failing to wound, prompting several assists before the assailants fled. It also reports Brigadier General Churchill's recovery and presentation to the king, and the Duke of Kent’s planned departure for Brampton for health recovery.
Prices of stocks and bonds are listed with varied figures across items. Sout Sea, Old Ann, New d, Bonds values range around mid hundreds. Bank, Circulation, York Buildings, Africa, India, Royal Aff and London Aff appear with percentages and notes. Ex chequer orders and discount figures also mentioned.
To be sold the corn tythes and all tythes of Mrs Martha Ords within Scremerston township near Berwick upon Tweed. Part of the late Earl of Derwentwater estate. Enquire of Mr Henzel in Grey's Inn London or Mrs Martha Ord or Mr William Jeffreys in Berwick.
An advertisement hawks a cure all named Incomparable Specifick Injection or Lotion claiming to destroy venereal contagion without oral medicine. It lists prices, sellers in Wapping Cardiffe Southwark and contact points for inquiries, plus warnings against unscrupulous practitioners.
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