The Grazies's Advocate In A Pamphlet Reconsidered
A reader discusses a pamphlet from the last Parliament session, arguing to export part of wool with duty to foreigners to boost national revenue. The writer outlines a plan to export 700000 packs and buy back 300000 for domestic use, claiming a yearly gain of about ten million five hundred thousand pounds. He hints at broader European implications and promises more letters on the topic. Also notes a robbery case and various naval arrivals and port reports.
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Grazies’s Advocate
Ballance
Europe
Great Britain
House‘of
Austria
Remarkable Scottish Life Death of James Littlejohn at 118
From Mochrum in Galloway comes news of the death of James Littlejohn aged 118 within a month. He remained lucid to the end and recalled seeing King Charles the First and Oliver Cromwell in Scotland, describing them clearly as no child when they visited. Born in Edinburgh, he spent over fifty years as a cook in several gentlemen’s houses in Galloway.
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Scotland
Mochrum
Galloway
James Littlejohn
Charles
Oliver Cromwell
Edinburgh
William Girson Bricklayer Reported Missing in Ludlow
From Ludlow comes the note that William Girson a bricklayer was last seen last week. The terse bulletin notes he is missing with no further details on circumstances or location.
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New.s. Gloucester
Ludlow
William Girson
London News Roundup of Elections and Obits
In London, Common-Council events show results for Smithfield Precing with Gamon 276 Coker 256 220 Aftey 217 as the others abstain. The late Lord John Johnston, brother to the Marquess of Annandale, is to be buried at St James's Church after dying in France. An array of local deaths follows, including Rev. Ogle of Norton Suffolk and James, Chief Butler of Queen's College Cambridge. Maritime reports note the Argyle's Tender aboard Richmond Ellis from Jamaica and other vessels wrecked or captured near Scilly, alongside several arrests in Newgate for thefts.
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King
Myngs
St. Sepulchre
Farringdon
Smithfield Precing
Gamon
Coker
Aftey
John Johnston
France
Dover
St. James’s Church
Fern
St. Peter’s College, Cambridge
Laft
James
Queen's College, Cambridge
Aldersgate Street
Holt
Manchester
Newgate
Stanford
Scilly
Argyle
Richmond
Ellis
Jamaica
Anne Galley
Blowers
Carolina
London
Duke
Glayne
Maryland
John
Jane
Olive
Newfoundland
Portugal
Vigo
Monkhouse
Whitehaven
Oporto
John Mullenes
Thomas Cummins
New‘Bate
End of Robbery Case at Snowhill Theatre
A fragmentary notice reports an arrest or trial tied to a robbery on Snowhill on Friday night. Details are garbled but reference is made to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden performances, with stock market items interwoven. The fragment mentions South Sea stock, annuities, bank figures, and various financial instruments, reflecting a mixed page of crime and finance.
Lectures in Midwifry and Physick Begin January
December 23 1742 notice to residents of Farringdon ward invites support for lectures at the Lying-in Infirmary in Fermyn freet St James's. Lectures in midwifry and physick by Sir Richard Manningham will commence Monday January 16 at five in the afternoon. Physic lectures read separately and begin dearft of January.
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Fermyn Freet
St. James's
Midwifry
Richard Manningham
Knut
College of Physicians
London
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Miller
Regivin
Oporto 5
Vernon
Surriage
Topshiam
Diamond
White
Bufton
Lyon
Montague
East-India
Wind
Richard
Martha
Everden
St. Kit’s
Fryton
Banfield
Cape Fare
Ansley
Alley
Esther
Northcote
Friend
Virginia
Gayne
Providence
Stewart
Dublin
Sheldon
Marshal
Bristol
Dartmouth
William
Whitbone
Lisbon
Grantland
Plymouth
Cornish
Ar Scilly
Katherine
Egglestone
Nevis
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
Covent Garden
Venice
Presley
South Sea
New South Sea Annuities
India
Royal Exchange’ Assurance
Rupert Gamon
Cadwallader Coxer
Lobe
Savage
Astley
Tavo
N. B
St. Sepulchre’s
W. Webb
St. Paul’s
Che Lin
Mr. Oswatd
R. Dodsley
Pall-Mall
Te. Cooper
Paternofter Row
T. Osborne
Gray’s Inn
A. Millar
Katherine Street
Strand
J. Osborne
Paternoster Row
J. Hinton
St. Paul’s Church Yard
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