17 Feb 1731
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Newspaper
Daily Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 17, 1731
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR item notes naval events with Count reveal and flotilla effects. Mentions secrecy and Endulsd impacts, unclear names, and forces. The piece reads as a historical maritime bulletin with stylized language.
Fragmented OCR shows references to a resignation or death of a dean and appointment of Dr Bates as Dean of Norwich Cathedral. Other items mention a hospital incident involving Mr Freke, and scattered financial listings for South Sea stock, premiums, annuities and bonds with various prices and references to London and York Buildings. The text is garbled and combines ecclesiastical announcements with financial market items.
Last night the King and Queen with the Prince of Wales attended the Haymarket Theatre to view Porus, while commissions were signed for several gentlemen and officers across regiments. Notices include court appointments, theatre offerings at Drury Lane, a royal assent upcoming, and a parade of entertainments and curiosities at Fawkes’s, with public notices on wages, births, marriages, and notable deaths.
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