Corsican Affairs and Tobacco Farm Edicts Spill From Genoa to Milan
Reports from Genoa dated Aug 10 describe ongoing councils and a courier to Marquess Lomellini regarding Corsican settlement. Residents near Loano and Cairo face a royal tobacco farm order requiring selling or declaring stock within a month, with confiscation for noncompliance.
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Tssue
Lomellini
Republick
France
Senate
Corsica
Saffello
Sardinia
Loano
Cairo
Urrecut
Alpingue
Marquess de Maille- Lois
Bastia
Brando
Ajaccio
Olmeto
Baron Neuhoff
Biufid
Principality of
Liege
P.S
Count de Ha
Manheim
Prussia
Ney
Manieim
Sultzbach
Seaport News and Foreign Dispatches From Aug 20
Port News reports outwardbound ships failed with Sea Horse and Buthell for Figura, arrivals including Milk River from Nevis and Jemima from Calais. London items note Crim Tartary provisions, purchases for Russian cavalry remounts, Corsican regiment plans in Naples, a royal birth, plague rumors in Genoa, and various military orders and diplomatic moves from Paris.
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London
Bialacerkiew
Crim Tartary
Ukrain
Holstein
Petersbourg
Naples
Barcelona
Ratifbon
Oxford College assigns new livings amid clerical changes
The Provost and Fellows of Queen's College Oxford presented the Rev Dr Shaw to Edmund Hall and the Rev Mr Atkinson to the Rectory of Newnham Hampshire, both vacancies arising from deaths. Wheat remains dear in northern England at nine to ten shillings per bushel, causing hardship as corn exports strain households. Mary Cooper, condemned for robbery at Putney, was executed at Kingston Gallows after a harsh sentence. Dunkirk shipped eight tons of brandy. exports included iron ordnance to New England and lead shot to the Sound. High water at London Bridge occurred about 1:35 AM.
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Shaw
Queen’s College, Oxford
Edmund Hall
Felton
Atkinson
Newnham
Hampshire
Hutchinson
Hammersmith
England
Mary. Cooper
Surrey
Sorriano
Putney
Kingston Gallows
Dunkirk
New England
Market quotes and bond prices from South Sea era list
A dated financial snippet lists South Sea Seeck at 109 1 half to 3 years, New South Sea Anedies at 112 5 Sths, various bonds and annuities with percentages and terms, and mentions premiums, taxes, and copper prices. It notes an overvalue of Life Society tickets by 7s above real value.
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New South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange
Emperorr
Notice to Gardeners on Standings at Leadenhall Market
London August 1 1740 The Committee of Common Council orders all gardeners with stands in the new Herbs and Greens market near Leadenhall to occupy their plots by September 5 or risk loss to others.
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London
Common-Council
Outrick
Leadenhall Market
Stolen Silver Plates Reported After Break-in at Pepper Harra
A detailed, old style notice from Surrey reports a night-time break-in at Pepper Harra near Lord Viconne Middleton’s residence. Three dozen silver plates and other items were taken, with rewards offered for information leading to recovery, naming Noricero Mei Williams and Jordens as silversmiths and mentioning the Golden Ball on the Teerafs in St. James's Street.
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Viconne Middleton
Pepper Harra
Surrey
Lyon
Noricero
Jordens
St. James's Street
Auction of Abraham Adams’s Household Effects Enfield Estate
To be sold by auction on Wednesday the 27th instant and following days the entire household furniture and effects of the late Abraham Adams director of the Hon. East India Company at his late dwelling in Enfield Chase. Items include rich satin damask Mohair and India wrought furniture beds window curtains chairs tapestry hangings carpets plate china Japanese brew ware and useful articles. Viewing from Monday until sale time each day at eleven o clock. Catalogues free on Saturday at the sale place and Clark’s Gehien Head Gerard Street near St Anne's Church.
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Abraham Adams
Blag Deceas
Baft Lm'ia
How'e
Chace S de
Enfield
India
Japan
Che Guest Callicoes
Mathis
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Genoa
Friendship
Storey
Oporto
Str. Thomas
Kirby
Cobb
Jamaica
Willoughby Bay
Staney
Antigua
Milford
Haven
Elizabeth
Seaton
Glasgow
Duke of Argyle
Hambleton
Spithead
Argyle
Leghorn
Gibraltar
Port News
Paris
Earl of Wakegrave
Cardinal de Fleury
Spain
Ireland
Robert Kerr
Scotland
Cathcart
Gent Unwin
Pantall
James Goodhope
Willis
John Atkinson
St. Margaret
Westminster
Henry Hart
East India Company
Godolphin
Royal College of Physicians
Warwick Lane
Lords of the Admiralty
London Bridge
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