Riotous Assembly Suppressed in Portfoaken Ward
January 31 1737 Barward orders Marshals and Constables to break up disorderly gatherings near Little Tower Hill Rosemary Lane as idle vagabonds sell old rags and clothes. Lord Mayor directs capture and examination of offenders by magistrates to deter theft and protect local trades.
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Barward
George the Second
Great Britain
Company of Merchant-Taylors
Portfoaken
Tower-Hill
Rosemary-Lane
Purchaser Eyes Annuity Purchase from Mr Dovey
A person around 25 seeks to lay out two thousand pounds to purchase an annuity or life interest. Enquiries are directed to Mr. John Dovey, Attorney at Law, Clementi's Inn.
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John Dovey
Clementi’s Inn
Picture in Gold Sold at Covent Garden Pawn Notice
A picture in gold with a crystal frame, by Lynch, was taken from Covent Garden Playhouse and offered for pawn or sale. A notice requests Mr William Hare, Goldsmith at the Grasshopper in Fleet Street, be informed. a Guinea reward is offered for information leading to stop the sale with no questions asked.
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Oost
Covent-Garden Playhouse
Lynch
William Hare
Grasshopper
Fleet-streets
House of Lords
Westminster
Charles I
Martyn
Gloucester
J. Pemberton
St. Dunstan’s
Fleet-street
Bishop of
Salisbury
St. David's
Price
Archdeacon Denne
House of Commons
St. Margaret’s
The Paphian Grove Mock Heroic Poem Satirizes Covent Garden
Publication details for OM K-Gs Or The Paphian Grove a mock heroic poem in three cantos satirizing Covent Garden theatres and fashionable crowds. It notes frontispiece and marginal corrections, with a marginal advert for Cardinal Alberoni's scheme to reduce the Ottoman Empire.
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Covent-Garden
J. Robinson
Tavistock-street
G. Spavan
Feathers
Sc. Clemene
the Strand
Cardinal Alberoni
Answer to a Late Book Christianity as old as the Creation
An old pamphlet notice for two volumes by John Leland titled Christianity as old as the Creation. It purports to refute objections to the divine revelation and defend the Scripture against natural religion critiques. Printed for Richard Hette at the Bible and Crowns in Poultry.
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John Leland
Tas Richt
Leland
Works of the Learned
Richard Hete
Bible
HO J. Vuegas
Rendrin
Kd Wardp
Harrow
Gene
G. Strahan
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
Parts of the Manuscript Include Algebraic and Logarithmic Topics
The text lists sections titled VI LOGaRITHMETICAL, VII Linear, VII InstRUMENTAL, IX ALGEBRAICAL. It appears to be an outline or table of contents from a mathematical treatise.
Treatise on Husbands and Wives Law and Equity History
An advertisement for the third edition of a legal treatise by Aron and Feme detailing marriage law, baron and feme, jointures, wills, divorce, and actions. It notes additions from Left Books reports and lists the publisher T Waller at Middle Temple Cloisters, with two volumes on the Court of Common Pleas, Exchequer and King’s Revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Waller
Temple Cloysters
Court of Common-Pleas
Exchequer
King
W. Meadows
Cornhill
Eowakd Bysshe
Virgil
Joseph Trapp
D.D. Ina
Telemachus
Ulysses
Aristonous
Archbishop of
Cambray
Boyer
Bonan
Middle-Temple
Miurtini
N. Bailey
Robinson Crusoe
York
America
Oroonaque
Neniah Hale
T. ' Ward
Temple Gates
Fleerstreet
Mary
Wiliam Wicherley
Land of Providence
The History of the Incarnation and Saviour's Life Book
A large volume with thirty three copper plates and two maps portrays the life of Jesus Christ from the incarnation to the ascension. It includes the lives and acts of the twelve apostles, St Maul Luke and St Mark, and a chronological table from Herod's reign to the apostolic age.
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Jesus Christ
S. Maul
St Luke
Mark
S. Barnabas
Herod the Great
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Deceasd
Marine Coffee
Birchin-Lane
Copthall Court
Throgmorcon-streec
William Eanton
John Clark
Peterborough-Court
J. Brotherton
Church of England
Arthur Bettesworth
Charles Hitch
Red Lion
Pater-nofter-Row
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