Dart Post Letter Attacks Webber Scheme for Wool Trade
The author criticizes Mr. Webber's plan to curb wool export and boost national wealth, arguing it would overreach, damage trade, and burden Britons. He cautions Parliament and London's merchants, praising France as a model and lamenting domestic corruption and policy failures amid Lynn’s decline and shifting naval movements.
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Mr. Webber
France
Great Britain
Euclid
Lynn
England
Webber
Death Sentences and Executions Reported in Hereford and Gloucester
Affizes sentences in Hereford ended with six condemned to death for burglaries and felonies. Eleven transported, five whipped, fifteen acquitted. In Gloucester, Cook and Cook executed for highway robbery including silver and goods. One Hundred four year old Anne Brindal dies at Crockware Parish St Briavel after long life.
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Hereford
Ezekiel Pritchard
Mary Williams
John Somers
Anne Pritchard
Anthony Howell
Richard Morgan
Gloucester
Thomas Cook
Francis Cook
Rogers
Kingswood
London News Roundup of Trade, Crime, and Theatre Listings
Shipping moves include Furnace Bomb-Kerch conversion into a 20 gun man of war and Princess Mary refitting after a mast loss. East India Company ships silver out of the river, while Captain Flower and two ladies are robbed near Hackney. thefts in Plymouth and Newgate. Coin, bullion, iron, lead shot, gunpowder, and exports listed. theatre bills and stock quotes noted. brief notices of public notices and a transportation sentence.
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Deptford Bock
Martin
China
Plymouth
East India Company
East India
Henry Flower
Guinea
Hackney
Mary Provott
Newgate
Alderman Perry
Mary Scholes
Tobias Isaac
Justice Withers
Gottenburgh
Holland
Oporto
Hudson’s Bay
Pensylvania
New England
Barbadoes
Jamaica
AY Quarterly Meeting of Trustees at London Office
Notice dated March 19 1740 announcing the AY Quarterly Meeting of the Trustees to be held at their office behind the Royal Exchange London on Thursday April 6 at ten in the forenoon. Claims by those who have sustained losses by fire must be presented prior to the meeting for satisfaction. Constant attendance is offered at the London office and at Craig's Court Charing Cross for insuring houses watches goods and merchandise from losses by fire throughout Great Britain.
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Royal Exchange
London
Craig's Court
Charing-Cross
Great Britain
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