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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 25, 1731
Page
2
Dispatch recounts royal instructions on governors’ support and annual expenses, fortifications repairs, and Cherokee peace talks. Notes on manufactures hemp and silk incentives, a December sailing plan, and a Treasury board on a lottery. Edinburgh mentions executions, marriages, offices, and stock prices amid 1730 reports.
Letters from Seville dated May 12 and May 25 NS say Spain has not yet acted on the Vienna treaty and expects to wait for the London courier's return. They note the court plans a journey but remain unsure of its destination. The Catholic Majesty, who recently injured a fore leg, is reported much better.
Notice to all ship owners and masters willing to bring coals from Newcastle to London on freight. Apply to Mr Richard Riccards in the Minories or Mr Humphrey Gop Frey at Billingsgate for terms and negotiations.
London report from the French Mail notes the arrival of a French East India ship at Marseilles from India. It provides particulars on English outward-bound ships at their ports and those that sailed from the Downs on December 13. The dispatch mentions £729 and suggests another ship was expected.
Whitehall May 11 1731 the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty s Treasury order that monies for tickets in the lottery of eight hundred thousand pounds be paid into the Bank of England to the hands of the receivers in two equal payments one half by June 1 1731 and the other by August 20 1731 all purchasers of tickets must make payments under penalties for failure
The edition by John Gray titled A Treatise of Gunnery is published this day. Printed for W Innys at the West End of St Pauls.
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