Great Duke weighs sides as war looms on Italian front
Florence and Vienna dispatches reveal Imperial troops massing on borders of the Dutchy and Pontremole reports a large force from Lunegiana en route to Pisa and Lucca. Young Bohemian nobles visit the Duke, while celebrations mark Dresden’s birth of a prince. Count Martenfel resigns at Warsaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seville
Dutchy
Drom Pontremole
Luneggiana
Pisa
Lucca
Italy
Cedech
Bohemia
Rome
Ochendo
Sigior
Francis Guicciardini
Prague
Vienna
Saleziana
Amelia
Brunswick- Hanover
Baris
Lanzendorf
Homberg
Mary Magdalen
the Favorita
Apostle St. Bartholomew
Largen-Emzerstorf
Dreising Arriv
Empire
Count Kufstein
Gellensdorf
Eugene of
Savoy
Genoa
Milan
Sardinia
Lombardy
Leipfuck
Dresden
Martenfel
Poland
Silesia
Oratory at Lincoln's Inn Fields Presents Odd Modern History Piece
An evening event at Seven o'clock features an oration on a controversial modern history work titled In her WITS and out of her SENSES. The piece mocks politics, education, and culture, with satirical jabs at Popery versus Protestantism, and notes on contemporary figures and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oratory
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Clare-market
London Journal
Sir R
the Times
Petro
Bridget
Pompiliani
Reading
Orator
Oxford
Spain
Tuscany
Worm powder cure claim from 1730 London apothecary
A 1730 London certificate by Thomas Reed claims relief from a joint worm after using John Moore’s worm medicines and Green Sickness Powder sold at Mother locations. The tale names Laurence Pountney Lane apothecary, multiple sellers, and warns against counterfeit seals and inscriptions. Reed offers proof at his master’s house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas — Reeza
Hyde
Rude-Lane
John Moore
Laurence Pountney
s-Lane
Cannonstreet
Thomas Reed
Leader
Hunserford Market
James Abree
William Aylett
Canterbury
Benjamin Snithurst
Plymouth
Peter Brown
St. Thomas’s Street
Bristol
John Waore
England
London notices and society events from yesterday
Yesterday Capt Jonas Hanwy was named elder Brother of the Trinity House replacing Sir Thomas Master. The Lord Hervey’s newborn son Frederick was baptized with Prince of Wales and Duke of Richmond as Godfathers. the Dutchess Dowager of Marlborough as Godmother. Christ's Hospital chose Dr Fullerton as Physician after Sir Hans Sloane’s resignation. George Roffe and Elgis appointed Customs Commissioner in Scotland. Sir Charles Wager departed for Suffolk and Norfolk. Mr Morris, Head Beadle of St Martin in the Fields, died after a fall from his horse returning from Hampstead. Fréelove’s Galloway won the Hampstead Heath race. Opera at Bart bartholomew Fair praised. Oates and Fielding plan to perform at Southwark Fair. Sir John Gonton and ten Justices examined night-house activity in Covent Garden to issue warrants. Burk implicated in Mary Harvey case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonas Hanwy
Navy
Trinity House
Thomas Master
Deceas
Lord Hervey
Burlington Street
Frederick
Prince of Wales
Perton
Duke of Richmond
of Marlborough
Christ’s Hospital
Hans Sloane
Fullerton
George Roffe
Elgis
Scotland
Charles Wager
Suffolk
Norfolk
Morris
St. Martin
Hampstead
Fréelove
Galloway
Oftler
Hampstead Heath
Free Mason
Bartholomew Fair
Oates
Fielding
Southwark Fair
John Gonton
Westminster
Drury-Lane
Covent- Garden
Burk
Wounded Constables and Disorderly Arrests in Holborn Division
A report details a man and a woman arrested after a warrant led to the seizure of 36 to 40 disorderly persons in Drury Lane and other Holborn areas. They were brought before Justices Mercer and Hucks, with many committed to Bridewell or New Prison. A separate note records a murder of a servant maid in Cork Hill and the man implicated, though he pleads his conduct well in the neighborhood. Stock prices, post rates, and a public reward for a Bristol postboy robbery are also listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tothill-Fields Bridewell
Bridges-street
Sharpless
Holbourn
Drury-Line
Col
John Mercer
Robert Hucks
Middlesex
St. Giles’s Vestry
Bridewell
New Prison
Winchester
America
Dublin
Isaac Manley
Satutation
Cork Hill
O’neal
Newgate
General Post Office
Bristol
London
Maidenhead
Aimsbury
Bath
Lavington
Frome
Westbury
Cal
Letting of Hoxton Farmhouse and lands in Middlesex
At Hoxton Middlesex a convenient farmhouse named Sir Geoace Wair- MORE and stock are for sale. The house is new and well maintained with a good repair. Also 70 acres at Seamford-hill include a handsome dwelling, barn and cow houses, payable at the Turnpike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoxton
Middlesex
Geoace Wair- More
Thomas Harwood
Seamford-hill
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Florence
Seeray
South Sea
Bank
India
Roya Exchange
York
Welch
Harlow-Bath Fair
Union Coffee
Cornhill
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