Accident at Blackwall destroys Marlborough ship and cargo
A ship named Marlborough arriving from Fort St George caught fire while unloading at Blackwall. 1200 bags of saltpetre per East India Company burned with the vessel, value listed near flood. A fine young elephant also burned. Five other ships in company service escaped flames by leaving their anchors. No further details yet. No casualties reported in this fragment. Also a series of official movements and stock quotes are noted, including dispatches from Mr Keen and sessions at Hicks's Hall, with prices for South Sea and other securities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwall
Marlbrough
Fort St. George
East Indies
East India Company
Whitehall
Mr. Keen
Spain
Windsor
Ockham
Lord Torrington
Board of Admiralty
New Prison
Newgate
Old Bailey
Trinity House Reports Lighthouse Lost at Orfordness
The Master Wardens and Assistants of Trinity House announce that the lower light at Orfordness Suffolk was swept away by the sea on the fifth. Directions are given to maintain a light in the interim for building a new lighthouse, dated October 7 1730 London. John Whormby.
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Trinity House
Orfordness
Suffolk
Somersetshire
Dorsetshire
Devonshire
Cornwall
England
Campen
N.salmon
Ll.b. Princed
J. Roberts
Warwick-lane
J. Leake
Bath
N.B
Dr Freind History of Physick Two Volume Edition
Publication notice for the third edition of Dr Freind's History of Physick from Galen to the sixteenth century. Printed for F Walthoe in Cornhill. Includes pricing and references to allied works by Wellssted and Desacu ller. Copper plates illustrate the description of the verry.
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Freind
Physick
Galen
Mead
F. Walthoe
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
R. Welsted
M.D
Voyage Collection in four volumes by J. Knapton catalogued
Supt published a collection titled A Collection of Voyages In Four Vols in Ottawa containing Capt. William Campster's voyages around the world and the lions water voyage detailing left on the Isthmus of America. It includes Dampier expedition accounts aboard the St George with other Captains and voyages across the world plus illustrations of birds fishes and plants copper-engraved. Printed for J and J Knapton at the Crown in St Pauls Church Yard.
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Gust
James
John Knapton
St. Paul’s Church
St. David
Epward
Coventry
Litchfield
Ottawe
William Campster
America
Dampier
South Seas
St. George
Mexico
East India
W. Funnell
CowLey
Globe
Sharp
Darien
Woon
Streights
Magellan
Mr. Roberts
Levant
Sermons by Samuel Clarke On God and Holiness
Publication notice for the second edition of Clarke's sermons and life preface by Benjamin Lord BishOp Salisbury. Lists volumes on attributes of God including faith, unity, eternity, omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, goodness, patience, justice, wisdom, and love. Mentions availability at Paul’s Churchyard and reference to later volumes and works of Clarke.
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Samuel Clarke
St. James’s
Westminster
Jobs Clarke
Saram
Benjamin Lord Bishop
Salisbury
Twe Vale
J. and
Ji . Paul’s Churchyard
Baen
The Hive Third Edition Catalog and Related Works
A notice listing The Third Edition of The Hive a collection of songs with a critique on songwriting by Ambrose Purllups. It details multi volume sets with prices and accompanying works including translations and poems by various authors, noting numerous titles and editions with prefatory dissertations and notes.
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Ambrose PurLups
F. Walthoe
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
Hero
Leanper
Muftus
Mr. Sterling
Creecu
Lucretixs
Wexsten
Longinus
Demonstration of Nat Writings by Clarke and Newton
A historical notice lists Clarke's demonstration of Newton’s natural philosophy in two volumes, Clarke’s English rendering, and noted works on natural and moral evil, Christian truth, and Grotius with Leclerc notes.
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Isaac Newton
John Clarke
D. D
Sarum
James and
Joan Knapton
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Rabaul
Samuen Clarke
Mr. LeClerc
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India
Royal Assurance
London Assurance
York
Welch
London
Oober
Jouhn Whormby
J. Knapton
Crown
St. Paul’s Church Yard
C. King
Westminster Hall
Europe
Col. Parsons
Napton
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