Asbestos Linen and Ancient Globe Notes Found
Petersbourg and Warsaw dispatches describe a sample of asbestos linen woven in Siberia and preserved for the Emperor's collection, with Kircher’s account of asbestos fibers turning to dirt in water. Warsaw reports delayed kingly arrival and Diet talks, while Amsterdam cites Protestant pressures in Poland. Maritime notices from Falmouth to Whitby list ships and cargoes, including oil, coal, and wheat deliveries.
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Academy of Sciences
Moscow
Siberia
Westchoturski
Tobolski
Athanasius Kircher
Asbesles
Fangut
Great Tartary
Pliny
Strabo
Plutarch
Warsaw
Budziack
Amsterdam
Palatin
Plague Quarantine Decrees and Global Dispatches
Late last night mail from Holland and Venice reports an island outbreak. health magistrates forbid commerce with Zante Cephalonia Ve niza St Maur and Corfon and impose a forty day quarantine for ships from nearby regions. Also notes arrivals of the Marquess of Monteleon and Earl of Chesterfield. stock prices and insurance quotes. an Oratory notice about a discourse on savages and humane nature. a reward for a Danith bitch with the Earl of Inchequin’s collar. warning to deliver it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Levant
Zante
Cephalonia
Veniza
St. Maur
Corfon
Turkey
Marquess of Monteleon
Spain
Republick
Florence
Hague
Moscow
Sophy
Persia
China
Stockholm
Sweden
Sparre and
Gedda
Soissons
Vienna
Zinzendorf
Bohemia
Ratisbon
Congress of Soissons
Windisgratz
Earl of Chesterfield
Great Britain
Newport-market
N. B
F. Lafitan
Jean’d
Tillotson
Sprat
Bourdalone
Earl of
Ships of War Reach Spithead and London Docks News
London reports arrival of ships Burford Orford Suez Freston from Gibraltar and Antigua, with Captain Baker saving a crewman who later drowned. A fire at a chairmaker’s in St Paul’s area is extinguished. Moll King and Sarah Pon, pickpockets, are jailed at Newgate. husband executed at Tyburn. Lord Chief Justice Eyre’s mother dies. A marriage is rumored between John Hylton Esg and Mrs Harriet Pitt. Sessions begin at Guildhall Hicks’s Hall and Old Bailey events scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spithead
Gibraltar
Burford
Stewart
Orford
Brown
Suez
Cockburn
Freston
Tis
Antigua
Baker
London
Royal George
England
Fatel
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Crown
Moll King
Sarah Pon
Newgate
Playhouse
Tyburn
Eyre
John Hylton Esg
Carlisle
Harriot Pitt
Guildhall
Hicks’s Hall
The Provok'd Husband and Other Theatrical Notices
A long eighteenth century advertisement lists Drury Lane performances and benefits for Mrs Bridgwater, Mrs Walter, Mrs Butler, Mrs Brett, and Miss Lindar. It describes The Provok’d Husband, The Strolers, The Fair Penitent, and other entertainments with cast members like Mr Wilks, Mrs Oldfield, Mr Cibber, and Miss Jenny. Also notes ticketing, dancing entertainments, and separate notices for sword trials at Oxford Road and masquerade dressmakers, plus worm medicine advertisements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilks
Lady Townly
Oldfield
Mr. Manly
Mills
Grace
Porter
Francis Wronghead
Cibber
Lady Wronghead
Thurmond
Count Baflet
Bridgwater
Jenny
Mr. Thurmond
Boval
Essex
Mr. Burny
Brett
Lindar
His Majesty’s
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
London
Oldfelding
Townly
Francis Wronghead, Mr. Cibber
Mis Denny
Academy
Chancery Lane
Golden Jarr
Charles-street
Covent Garden
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Falmouth
Yvesterday
Seahorse
George Barrow
Rotterdam
Dartmouth
Whitby
Sunderland
Biddiford
Pick
Brotherhood of
Scarborough
Robinson
Flanders
Bristol
Joseph and
Hannah
Ascot
Berbuder
Saywell
Ditto
Gravesend
Dolphin
Capt
Wolf
Holland
South Sea
Bank
India
Royal Exchange
York Buildings
Welch
King’s Theatre
Hay-marn Kits
Figg
Oxford
Oxford Road
Marybone Fields
Richard Banks
Lancaster
Gill
William Gill
Gloucester
Mr. Figg
N.B
Young’s
Opera House
Pall-Maill
Dom Martenzack
Monsieur Sebastien
France
Moore
John Moore
Dover-street
Piccadilly
James Abree
Canterbury
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