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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 31, 1732
Page
2
A notice from Deal May 25 announces a General Court of the Proprietors of Ortend Stock next week to examine company accounts, set a dividend, and investigate alleged abuses. They will also discuss entering additional trade to benefit the company amid East India concerns.
Reports from London note the East India Company ship James and Mary arriving from St Helena and Bencoolen with pepper, one man lost. Royal Birth Day festivities at court for Princesses Amelia and Caroline, a marriage between John Trevor and Miss Steele, and Baron Hartoff's Greenwich embarkation. Pay office payments, church openings, a Dartford cricket match, a marriage treaty, and military plans accompany market notes and stock figures.
The Charitable Corporation for Relief of Industrious Poor to hold a General Court at the House in Spring Garden tomorrow morning at eleven by adjournment of the last session upon special affairs.
The widow Vervoort announces she will not proceed with a public sale of a collection of pictures on May 27 at her house in Migdalen Steer. Instead she will sell privately to the highest bidders at reasonable rates, with catalogues showing sizes, representations, and anchors names, and nearest purchase prices. Noblemen and gentlemen have viewed the collection and the notice is to be trusted as accurate.
A damaged notice seeks information about a lost anchor weighing about 1400 pounds with sixty fathoms of cable and 18 fathoms of buoy, tied to a boy and a gun foot. Seekers offer a reasonable reward and request contact with Capt. Nathaniel Cole in Ipswich or Mr. Thomas Turner in Burr Street London.
This Day is published a Defence of Dr Clarke s Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God. It answers objections and translations, discusses space duration and necessary existence, and includes a compendium of the demonstration. Printed for James and John Knapton at the Crown in St Paul s Churchyard, price 25. Also available are Dr Samper Claike s Discourse on the Being and Attributes of God the Obligations of Natural Religion and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation in the 6th edition and Dr Samusz Clarke s Sermons and other Works in Vols 8vo.
A catalog of titles including Grey’s Memoria Technica and New Method of Memory, English Ecclesiastical Law extracts, Remarks on English princes, practical mathematics compendium, book-keeping, Charون of Wisdom, Minutius Felix and Tertullian’s Apology, D Arvieux travels, religious life works, devotionals, morality treatise, closet and altar companion, and chronological Europe tables with copper plates by Colonel Partons.
An 18th century medical advertisement touts a medicine to stop bleeding and heal wounds from cuts stab wounds gunshots and nosebleeds. It claims long shelf life and usefulness at sea and in all climates with directions on every bottle and large quantities discounted for surgeons apothecaries and midwives. Distribution includes Garraway’s shop and multiple named sellers in London Edinburgh Bristol York Derby Gloucester Nottingham Bath Canterbury and more.
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