Memorial Mediation Presents Hope For City Security
A French memorial to the Leffer Council urges acceptance of King Louis's mediation with Zurich and Bern to restore order. It calls for abolishing the Burgher Guard, reestablishing pre August conditions, and securing liberty while safeguarding the state. Zurich and Bern endorse calm, demand guards return to magistrates, and warn against distrustful armed displays. Also notes a beggar death and a tax money theft discovery at Bishopsgate, and a Drury Lane theatre listing for The Country Wife and The Harlot's Progress.
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Zurich
Bern
Republick
M. Amelot
Philip Meadows
Knt
John Maynard
Houthold
Jane Downing
Bishopsgate-street
White-Hart
Spital-fields
Theatre Royal
Drury Lane
Arrivals and Departures from Jamaica and London Ports
Port News reports arrivals from Jamaica to Liverpool and London bound ships. The Love and Hare reached Cork after Jamaica passages, while the Maxwell and Hare headed to Baltimore. Elizabeth and Poppet arrived from Jersey and London respectively, with several others expected in the Downs. Winds northerly, vessels in motion toward Virginia and Barbary routes.
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Port News
Lancaster
Arriv
Love
Hadwen
Jamaica
Bettys
Hare
Liverpool
Crooked Island
Cork
Thompson
Maxwell
Antigua
Baltimore
Dartmouth
Elizabeth
Jersey
Legros
London
Poppet
Wall
South Barbary
Deal
Downs
Stanton
Charnock
Virginia
W. Gravesend
Mary
Harding
Rotterdam
Sarah
Calcott
Peterbourg
Society
Redwood
Stockholm
Ransom
Artis
Narva
Walpole to travel to Houghton Hall for three weeks
London reports that Sir Robert Walpole and Lord Harrington will set out for Houghton Hall where they will stay three weeks and the Treasury Board will be adjourned during the visit. The Sheriff visit to Canterbury’s archbishop and Privy Council members is noted for a Guildhall dinner. Also reported are the deaths of Lewis Barlow MP and Capt Richard Boulton of the East India Company, with bequests and estates described.
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London
Robert Walpole
Lord Harrington
Houghton Hall
Board of the Treasury
Canterbury
House of Commons
Market prices for stocks and securities noted
A list of fluctuating prices from South Sea Stock to India and Exchequer Orders. Includes South Sea Annuities Bank securities Royal Exchange Assurance and various government and private loan instruments with stated percentages, dividends, and premiums. Fragmentary entries indicate a broad market readout with numerous specific figures.
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South Sea
New South Sea
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Prem
Lord Mayor’s Procession Orders Double Watch and Clear Streets
In October 1737 the city marshals are ordered to notify ward constables to enforce a double watch of well armed men on Lord Mayor’s Day. They must keep streets free of carts and hindrances, prevent carmen and coaches from blocking routes, and arrange coaches to move orderly along Queen Street to the Three Crime Stairs toward the Water side. A copy of this order is to be published in daily papers.
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Compters
Fetter-lane
Fleet-street
Stocks-Market
Queen-street
Alsger
Proceston
Queen Freet
Succeston
Bath Coach and Horses Inn at Holborn Item Mentioned
In Holborn at the Red Lion Inn a coach and horses discussion appears with a focus on a gift instance and the OM Motulay order. The item hints at a coaching and hospitality context involving a named inn and local symbolism.
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Bath
Ole Red Lion Inn
Holbourn
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