Peace Proclaimed Across Europe Versailles May 1739
A Paris royal audience celebrated the peace with King Louis and Emperor Charles V. The ordinance sets free movement and trade among realms, forbids actions harming the peace, and requires public display. Te Deum requested in Paris cathedral with Te Deum services in dioceses. News items follow on ships, court figures, and stock markets in London.
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Esterday
Parliament
Chamber of Accompts
Auds
Mint
Paris
University
Grand Council
French Academy
Count de Maurepas
Marquess de Breze
M. Desgranges
Louis
France
Navarre
Charles
Versailles
Europe
Port News Deal Fune's and War Ships
His Majesty's Ships of War remain as per last with the Samael and Pearcy from Holland for Philadelphia and the Friendship Vettmey for This Day is published adorned with a frontispiece The Frery Epinion of the Operation ape Parties in letters to Caleb D Anvers dedicated to Sir Robert Walpole priced bound for R Franklin Covent Garden Buff Street The Frontispiece may be had separate priced 6d
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Duke of Cumberland
Mary
Louisa
St. James’s
Kensington Palace
Guildhall
Lee
Willes
Comyns
Goldsmith’s Hall
William Westbrook
Ifield
Sussex
Henry Gale
Leonard Gale
East Grinstead
Westminster Bridge
Essex
Aldgate
Cleland
Scandaroon
London
Almeria Bay
Portugal
Sound
Holland
Carolina
Deal
Fune
His Majesty
Samael
Pearcy
Philadelphia
Friendship
Vettmey
Caleb D’anvers
Robert Walpole
Franklyn
Buffel-street
Covent Gardens
For Sale by the Candle at Birchin Lane Auction
A sale notice advertises a parcel of porcelain with rest of a lot 168 and twenty rales of coffee. Catalogues are available at John’s Coffee-House in Swithin’s Alley or at the sale venue, with viewing from morning until sale time. Peter Crouch in Swithin’s Lane is the broker handling the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Coffee
Birchin-Lane
Heathcoate
John
Swithin’s Alley
Peter Crouch
Swithin’s Lane
fiTer Crovucn
Wanted Six Pollicies in Amicable Society for Lives
Freehold estates near Bristol valued from 300 to 600 pounds per year. Annuities range from 0 to 200 pounds per year. Seeking life interests and other valued positions for good price. Small sums ready to be rented from 100 to 1000 pounds. 60 particulars available from Mr. John Pillmey at the Rainbow Coffee-House in Fullwood's Rents near Gray's Inn Walks Holborn.
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Amicable Society
Bristol
John Pillmey
Rainbow Coffee-Haxfe
Fullwood’s Rents
Gray’s Inn Walks
Holbourn
Mystic Mechanical Clock Draws Crowds at Strand Sale
An ornate talking clock advertised by C Clay near the New Church in the Strand claims to surpass all known musical and scientific limits. The item, marketed as a divine gift of beauty, offers two shares for a Guinea and a raffle of ten shares for access to view the piece, with dramatic promises about judgment, experience, and the power to move the passions of observers.
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C. Clay’s
Strand
Malick
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Malaga
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Clark
Yarmouth
Davey
Peter
Bridget
Dale
Norway
Richard
Pafleo
Guernsey
Dolphin
Brewin
Endeavour
Smyter
Freefolk
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Cork
Happy Jane
Stratton
Jamaica
Paris A-la-Main
Cardinal de Tencin
Embrun
Abbe Aureli
Carthagena
Order of the Trinity
Atrick
London Bridge
South Sea
New South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Mine Adventur
Islington
Highgate Gatehouse
Hampstead
Middlesex
King's Head
Porters Block
Hicks’s Hall
William Fowler
Port News
Everal
Jesus Christ
S. Paul
St. Luke
S. Mark
S. Barnabas
Herod the Great
Church of England
Charles Hitch
Red Lion
Paternoftes-Rowe
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