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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 28, 1731
Page
2
A woman spurred by a long standing feud plots murder by her sons after a plowman is enticed with 500 pounds promised by her. The narrative notes a legal suit by Prince de Robec in Flanders and several ships sailing to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Barbadoes, and Virginia. The Ann and Sarah arrives from Oporto as wind shifts to the west by north.
The Freeholders Society invites all ship owners and masters willing to bring coal from Newcastle to London on freight to apply to Mr Ricuarn 21 econps at his Minories house or Mr Humphrey Gonfrey at Billinggate office. They will negotiate terms for this purpose.
Yesterday morning Lord Harrington traveled to Richmond for a General Council. A messenger from Vienna arrived via Holland with dispatches for Earl Chesterfield and proceeded to Richmond. William Burrows faced Newgate for street robbery. three accomplices escaped. Duke of Manchester sought passage from Arlington Street to Bluntington. The Rev Mr Gibson of Clare Hall Cambridge died. Lord Wilmington hosts Privy Council business at Brampton Court. Mr Francklin faces trial at King's Bench for defamation. The South Sea Company case with Col Duncombe advances. a Tipitar is committed to the King's Bench Prison for extortion. South Sea stock quotes noted.
A partial OCR reading shows scattered references to bonds and percentages from 1963. Items include India Bonds, 3 per cent annuities, English copper, and assorted bank and lottery terms, with many garbled fragments and misread figures.
Navy office invites applications for seamen clothing contracts. items include jackets waistcoats breeches shirts caps drawers stockings gloves shoes buckles and striped twicken patterns may be viewed at the office to review conditions of the contract. bidding starts June 2 in the morning.
The Governor and Company of the Bank of England announce they will buy and sell foreign money gold and silver at current market prices. They will take care of Bills of Lading left with them and freight will be paid to the captains to encourage merchants and others.
This Day. is: publise'd, 6 A Treatise of Gunner ohn ent Printed for W. Inn.s. at the yen of S. Paul's. Where, may.be a bad, 1. .S.Gravefande's. Mathematica Elements of Nyaral kaglt by confirm'd by Experiments, 8, T. Defaguliers, Lb. D. 2 ae sie ii. rhe eral of Pinson a diragh and inverses,dhe former: ransarion from a celebrated Marquis. de Halpical's Amalyse des Intiments Petits, and the fie. supplied by the Translator E. Stone. E.R. S. HE An Introdution to Natural: Philosophy or, Philosophical: Lectures 'read in the University of Oxford, A.D 1700. Bas J. Beil, Mb Dy. yiliaes Exofesoe Of, Adteonopayy. FR So, 2 Edi
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