Great Political Dispatches From London and Abroad
The mail from Holland recounts consent by Flanders to a subsidy of 7,800,000 florins for the present year and continuance of beer duty. Reports of royal and diplomatic actions, including a planned truce near Utrecht, a T. of France affair, and a Barbary envoy touring St Paul’s Cathedral. Notices of deaths, marriages, and court appointments fill out a broad London scene with stock prices and local clerical changes.
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Flanders
iSharers
Lmiperial Majesty Inc
Compsberg
Prussia
Potts
Pethany
Gavalryng
Poland
Wilid
George
Helle Cate
Elleney Briggadier
Cnet
Sutton
Ogober
Zeland
Noy
Company
Theatrical bills for Hamlet and Fawkes entertainments
An 18th century advertisement lists The Tragedy of Hamlet at Drury Lane with Mr Wilks and Mrs Porter among cast, followed by The Famous Fawkes entertainments at the Queen’s Aras Tavern Southwark. It notes dexterity tricks, the Musical Temple of Arts with moving pictures, and a view of Gibraltar, plus a coronation procession tableau. A lost Navy-Bill for 31,125 pay due to William Shilps is mentioned with a reward for recovery.
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His Majestys Company of Comedians
Theatre ‘Royal
Drury
Hamlet
Prince of Denmark
Fawkes
Marhalsea Gate
Southwark
London
Musical Temple of Arts
Bay of Gibraltar
real-Aion
Parnaffis
Apollo
Weeminster
William Shilps
Edmund Homer
Handsomie Coach and Fixable Horses at White Bear Piccadilly
Notice for transportation and accommodation options on Wednesday next from the White Bear in Piccadilly. Advertises reasonable rates for travel along the road and notes water quality. Also promotes a chamber lamp device by Bif. Dickenson at Sir Isaac Newton's Head, Cornhill, claimed to be a brass springing contraption for scentless use, sold near Stocks-Market.
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Piccadillad
Bristol
Bif
Dickenson
Tfazé Newton
Cornhill
Daneek
Forrest’s Coffes
Charing-Cross
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Holland
Brussels
M. de la Beaune
France
Paris
Coffum ‘Hojah
Tripoli
Barbary
Twickesham, Batt
Anne.Cornwallis
Marlbrough-street
Thomas ‘Twisden
Bradburn
Kent
Maidstone
Towers
Hillington
Uxbridge
John Philpot
Nicholas Philpo
Thomas. Vaughan
Henry
Voguele
Peckham
Surrey
Smiyrna
England
Windsor
Frederic Vaughan
Earl
Darnly
Erate
Westminster Abbey
Francis Cortington
West-Wickham
Winchester School
Henry Wallop
Viscount Lymington
Husbands
Hampshire
Feversham 3
Davington
Dean and Chapter of
Canterbury
George Fage
Marden
Hunton
Litchfield
Herbert Taylor
Sx. Alphage
South Sea
Bank
Royal Exchan Rance
London Assurance
Engle Ee Rh
Welchi-Copper
Premum
India
Newport-market
Mr. Addison
Sir R
Cocking
Norfolk
Times
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