Devotional Protest Highlights Rural Hardship and Wool Trade
A letter laments Devon and Somerset counties facing poverty as merchants close, laborers seek work at Tiverton markets, and wool running threatens national industry. It cites bailiffs, bankrupt merchants, and charitable sums while urging bold action to protect home wool and prevent French import impact.
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Tiverton
Halfanid
Woolf
Sriftol
Devon
Semerset
Alan
Ail Ferrer
Bedi
England
H. Wy
London News Roundup 1740 Voters and Shipping Tales
In London a political address urges MPs Richard Eliot and Charles Treweinney to back bills limiting placemen and creating annual elections. Lord Mayor Humphry Parsons is praised, Alderman Barber celebrated, and Albemarle Bertie named to the Privy Chamber. Notices report deaths, East India delays, a ship arrest for revenue fraud, a wherry collision recovery, and naval dispatches. The Royal Merchant and Harlequin performances announced at Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
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Humphry Parsons
Westminster
Aldérinch
Barber
Albemarle Bertie
Boston
Lincolnshire
Theatre Royal
Drury-Lane
Royal Merchant
Covent-Garden
Fragmentary France Mail Folio Report from November
A garbled notice describes a late November event in Paris involving a laundress seeking kinship in a chamber of a house near Pont Neuf. A creature or assailant attacked, biting an ear and injuring the neck, with rescue arriving to prevent further harm. The fragment references a strange chase and a dramatic interruption in a public space.
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Pont-Neuf
Port News Arrivals and Convoys from Atlantic Ports
In port records of the era several vessels are noted arriving or sailing in convoy. The Prince Frederick Packer Lovel from Lisbon reaches port as Two Brothers Beach from London heads to Carolina and King George fox awaits convoy to Portsmouth. Gillow Dear from Archangel proceeds toward Dack. The Down remains in Majesty's Seas. Also listed are Codd from Oporto and Terra Nova Paterson from London with the fown, and Richard and John Copeland from Antigua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port N'Fws
Fagsfonth
Prince Frederick Packer
Lovel
Lisbon
Cowes
Beach
London
Carolina
King George Fox
Poremouth
Gillow
Archangel
Seg Dack
Deal
Saephwich Ata Telae
W. Teta
Beval
Rifto
Codd
Oporto
Cork
Terra Nova
Paterson
Fofon
Price
Petersbourg
Richard
John
Copeland
Antigua
South Sea Stocks and Annuities Market Summary
Yesterday's notes show South Sea Stocks at g3 1 half and South Sea Annuities at 108 1. Government issues include Three per Cent Annuities at 9 19s, Three per Cent ditto, and Three 1 half per Cent Exchequer-Orders at 100. Copper, India Bonds, Salt Tallies, and Emperor's Loung and other securities quoted with various prices.
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Bank
New Bank Circre Jationel
Prem
India
Milden Bank
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Uitto
Mine Adventure
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Whittle
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West-Indies
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Gralop
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