09 Dec 1742
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 09, 1742
Page
1
A fragment from a London Magazine exchange recounts a Woollen Manufactures debate on taxes and export decline. It cites rising costs, labour distress, and fear of foreign competition. An anecdote contrasts Welsh gentry profits with potential changes in servitude costs, warning of misguided policy.
A Paris letter describes a 27 last month night ship of 4 to 500 tons wrecked off the Cherbourg coast. Cargo included black cloth and linen. a Holland-built vessel of this year. Eleven men's heads were found in a sack, one recently flead. No claims on goods yet.
In Herefordshire on Tuesday night a fire at Mr Dobb’s in Linton destroyed his barn grain and other outbuildings. On Saturday a larger blaze at Mordiford consumed eleven bays of buildings two stallions about 800 bushels of grain twenty loads of hay and more valued at six to seven hundred pounds belonging to Mr Samuel Peak, farmer. Last Wednesday between two and five in the afternoon Jane Clarke widow of Jasper Clarke of Rodborough was murdered by a tall ill-looking man seen near her house. she was strangled with a handkerchief and her skull fractured with a wool card. The villain, a Herefordshire blacksmith by trade, fled in a dark brown coat and ragged coat with buttons and a white handkerchief, leaving his bloody coat and waistcoat behind.
The report lists Arrivals and movements along English ports with ships such as the Friend ship Gallway from St Martin’s to Rotterdam and the Catharine Deatch from Bourdeaux to Amsterdam. Jolliffe Sloop Thompson sailed for Tenby and Friendship for Liverpool from Cowes. Mercurions Bill and Alida Maria De Gray entered after piloting Dutch East India Ships from Middlebourg and Bourdeaux to Amsterdam. Croydon Smith from Bremen arrived at Milford.
London reports His Majesty appoints Sir John Strange, Knight, late Solicitor General, to be Cursher Baron of the Exchequer in place of Baron Clive, ceasing. The notice records a royal elevation in the judiciary with Strange succeeding Clive.
Reports from Staple's Inn mention the marriage of Mr Henry Granger to Miss Betty Liford. Life events note Liford’s heir and various deaths in London and Glasgow. Several trials at the Old Bailey, a French farce planned for the season, and theater listings for Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Market quotes and securities prices are provided with notices on speculative instruments. A final electoral appeal urges Vestry votes with a closing sign-off from Rob. Gamon.
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