21 Dec 1742
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 21, 1742
Page
1
A letter argues clergy deserve protected stations and adequate support, condemns improvised provisions, and cites divine ordinance. It urges regular records of livings and clergy, gradual growth of church staff, and strict admission rules to preserve dignity, purity, and order in the church.
Port news notes December sailings and arrivals. At Brownsey the Juffra Anna Virginia and Dantzick arrive. Industry Tender Swift Watts to Leghorn. Catherine Crathorne to Lisbon. Golden Fortune to Bremen, Cornelius Rotherburg to Mur flutee, John and Peter Gorton, Hendrick Alvery from Bourdeaux to Rotterdam. Several ships sail for Dunkirk and several light collier traffic to the Westward.
Private letters report Admiral Version with ten sail of men of war entering Kinsale harbour from Jamaica. Greyhound, long-missing, arrives at Falmouth from Lisbon. Obituaries note George Britland esq dying after fever, former prisoner with large Derbyshire estate, and Theobalds the Whipmaker. A robbery occurs at Mrs Wilson’s Haberdashery in Hungerford Market. shop grate removed to steal goods. Theatre notices list As You Like It at Drury Lane and The Royal Merchant at Covent Garden. Market and bond prices, including South Sea stock and India bonds, given with brief rates and items.
The precinct meeting unanimously returns Henry Snagg to the Common Council for the Old Bailey Quarter for the year ahead, in place of John Crutchfield. Elections at St Andrew’s Church at eleven o'clock. Also notices of a citizen dinner and a charitable corporation court in Westminster.
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