Robbery on North Mail near Kingsland in London
General-Post-Office reports a post-boy robbery between Two and Three this morning near Kingsland. A middle sized man in a light coat and wig stole five bags Hartford Peterborough Horncastle Louth Boston and most letters from Enfield Ware St Ives Reysion. Two suspected accomplices were seen nearby. Reward offers up to two hundred pounds for the robber and three hundred pounds for accomplice discovery with a royal pardon.
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General-Post-Office
London
Kingsland
van Jesse
Hartford
Peterborough
Horncaste
Louth
Boston
Enfield
Ware
St. Ives
Reysion
Robbery of the Mail from London in 1738
General-Post-Office in London reports that the Pot-Boy delivering the morning mail between Knightsbridge and Kensington was attacked by three men on horseback and one on foot at about three o clock. Bags for Bristol Bath Hereford Leominster and Presteigne were seized. A reward of two hundred pounds and a royal pardon are offered for apprehension and discovery of the criminals. By order of the Post-Master-General, John Jesse.
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London
Ae Reas
Knights-Bridge
Kensington
Bristol
Bath
Hereford
Leominster
Presteign
John Jesse
Auction notice for Mercery Goods at Angel Ludgate Hill
To be sold off very cheap in a few days at the Angel on Ludgate Hill the third door below the Old Bailey. Remainder of mercery goods including silks damasks velvets and gowns by Samuel Thompson. Shop to Samuel Tudman master, who enters at Michaelmas.
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G. Morris
J. Brotherton
Bible
Cornhill
Angel
Ludgate-Hill
Samuel Thompson
N. B
Samuel Tudman
Hofier
Michwelmas
Essays on the Animal Economy and Medical Treatises
This edition includes Keill’s essays on blood quantity velocity heart force secretion and macular motion, with Storical Observations and comparisons to Sanatorius. Also advertised are works on curing venereal disease prognostic signs of acute diseases sea illnesses and a gonorrhea treatise with anatomical cuts by Cockburn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Keill
Alfio
Engin
Sanatorius
G. Strahan
Royal Exchange
William Cockburn
Sale of French Wines in Old Fish Street Vaults 1738
The proprietor advertises distressed stock of excellent French wines including Urgundy Hermitage and Pontac Claret from the 1734 vintage. They are on sale daily except Saturdays and Sundays from two to six in the afternoon with tastings from the cask. The notice defends the wines against rumors of contraband and asserts direct import by order of the late Dr King.
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Bogshead
France
London
Dr. King
Charter-house
Old Fish Street
Lowe
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Mitre
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W. Allen
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Earl of Peterborough
Spain
Barcelona
Valencia
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