Lottery Lottery proceeds for Thames bridge project announced
Managers and directors of the Lottery under an act appoint payments into the Bank of England. Contributors must pay 1 pound 10 shillings per ticket by the 28th infant. A further 1 pound 10 shillings by the 28th of August. The remaining two pounds per ticket by the 12th day of October.
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River Thames
St. Margaret
City of
Westminster
Surrey
Faid Bridge
Bank of England
Carpenters Hall Notice on London Trade Free Status
The Worshipful Company of Carpenters warns that many in London practice carpentry without City freeman status or lack seven years of apprenticeship. To curb abuses, the Company will prosecute future offenders under the law as directed. Nathaniel Poorey, Clerk.
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Carpenters Hall
London
Worshipful Company of Carpenters
Elizabeth
Nathaniel Poorey
For Sale by the Candle Marine Coffee-House Ad
For Sale by the Candle at the Marine Coffee-House Birchin Lane on Wednesday next at Four o clock in the Afternoon 27 Bales Goats Wool 6 Bags Spanish Cloathing Wool 2 Bales Sponges To be seen from Monday Morning to the Time of Sale at No 2 in Dyers Hall Thames Street Catalogues at the Coffee-House and Samuel Robinson Broker Bow Lane
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Marine
Birchin-Lane
Dyers Hall
Thames Street
Samuel Robsinson
Bow- Lane
Curious Bengal Beast Arrives in England for Viewing
A notice invites the curious to see a single horned beast from Bengal described as nearly elephant-sized. The creature, not seen in Europe for 54 years, reportedly uses its horn in combat. Admission is half a crown per person, exhibited in Eagle Street near Red-Lion Square from nine to eight.
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England
Europe
Eagle- Street
Red-Lyon Square
Mechanical Musical Clock Promises Universal Mastery
A fragment from an early 18th century advertisement extols a wondrous musical machine sold at C. Clay's in the Strand. The piece claims to beat all human bounds in performance, with mathematical wheels to determine property sharing, shares offered for a guinea, and promises of divine insight behind its design. The prose emphasizes judgment, experience, and the superiority of this clock over ordinary science.
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C. Clay’s
New Church
Strand
Sermon before Lords Westminster Easter Monday 1738
Printed by order of the Lords this day a sermon preached before the House of Lords at Westminster Abbey on May 29. The volume also offers His Lordship’s sermon before the Lord Mayor and others at St Bridget parish church on Easter Monday 1738 and his charge to clergy of his diocese. Includes the third edition of The Use and Intent of Prophecy in six Discourses from 1724, published at the masters of the bench and two societies' request.
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Moses
Jesus
Cogist
John Leland
Greacen
Exiau
Richard Hett
Jeremiah Fones
Edinburgh
Dundee
London
Richard Hete
Angus and Mearns
Joan Stewart
Tealing
House
St. Bridget
Alfo
Temple Church
Judah
Christ
Jerusalem
Thomas Sherlock
Chichester
Temple
Salisbury
Jan AstRuc
France
Augustus the Second
Poland
Orleans
Fabricius Ab’ Aquapendente
Peter de Marchetris
Joan Freke
Anm
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
John Brotherton
Bible Nexe
Cornhill
House of Lords
Abbey Church of Westminster
Isaac
Lord Bissop
St. Asaph
J. Stabb
Westminster Hall
Roberts
Warwick Lane
James Street
Westminster
St. Margaret
Panion
King’s Bench and
Common Pleas
Ufe
R-Gosling
Crown
Fetter-lane
Fleet
Streee
King’s Bench
CB Wien
Evrrion
Tacitus
Julius Cesar
Augustus
Thomas Gordon
J. Peele
Locke
Independent Whig
Cato
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Eods
Euripid
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Ours
Ptaorey
Apud T. Cooper
Paternofter Row
Lord Wilcounc
House of Commons
Spain
T. Cooper
Globe
Charles Leslie
Robert Nelson
Lawrence Howell
G. Strahan
Royal Exchange
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