Notable Births and Naval Dispatches in Regency Era News
The report notes the delivery of a son to a Lady at Albemarle Street and mentions deaths, funerary benevolence, and a Gibraltar letter. It also covers HMS Romney cargo from Vera Cruz valued around 10,000 pounds and plans to dispatch a Man of War to Tetuan to address Barbary communications, including an officer on board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Rice
Col Parsill
Ely
Lord Romney
Viscount
Limerick
Riship
Albemarle Street
Day
Grosvenor
Margaret Pymm
Gibraltar
Romney
Granville
Jyash
la Vera Cruz
Peru
Tetuan
Dublin Letter Notes War News and Local Updates
A Dublin letter from April 23 describes 32000 troops on the German front and delays caused by weather. It reports local deaths, an appointment for City Overseer, Smock Alley theatre plans with Cibber and Giffard, a new comedy, and details on horse grazing, watering, and horse-welling places near the Music Hall and St Lawrence’s Well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waltouch
Juliers
N. S
Rhine
Arillery
Harristown
Cibber
Giffard
Lord Foppington
Cir
Charles Ealy Ty
Servant Thomas Smith Cited Over Absence and Notice Issued
Aged notice records Thomas Smith, servant to Mr Schuldham of Saffire Streep, absent without leave on March 22. Masters demand service in Dublin stores for flaxfeed orders. a public notice warns suppliers to hold until further advertisement. Also Thomas Denny of Tralee seeks parliamentary lease powers for everlasting caves on estates in Tralee borough, dated December 31, 1742.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Smith
Schuldham
Saffire Streep
Lee
Smith
Dublin
Orice
Thomas Denny
Tralee
Kerry
Great Britain
Caution Against Hiring Thomas Egan After Desertion
Hereas Thomas Egan, employed as a time age meat servant, quit his service last Saturday without leave or discharge. This notice warns all persons not to hire the said Egan, as I am resolved to pursue him legally wherever found. Dated April 25, 1742.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Egan
Thomas Egan
Dunst Society April 30 Premium Awards Report
The Dunst Society met last week to award premiums for sculpture tapestry lace needlework and invention. Houghton Abbey Street won 25 pounds for a St Paul preaching piece. Tudor’s landscape earned 10 pounds. a joint 10 pound division occurred for three lace pieces by Elinor Williams Margaret Reed and Elizabeth Roberts. Grattan’s King’s County fingered lace work won 5 pounds a yard. Beav er’s banner pieces and other works were noted with several other premiums debated and limited by merit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Madden
St. Paul
Houghton
Abbey-Street
John Mathews
Temple-bar
Tudor
Bacchus
Beaver
House of Lords
Elinor Williams
Margaret Reed
Elizabeth Roberts
Tryal
Horse Races at Glenarm Affected by June 1743 Plate List
Racing at Glenarm details five plate events from June 6 to 8 1743 with weights for age and six day entry rule. Includes Forty Pound Thirty Pound Twenty Pound and Ladies Plates plus entrance fees and payouts. Carried weights range from nine stone four pounds to ten stone ten pounds with best of three heats. Officials require pre entry six days prior and payment terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenarm
Sny Horse
Earring
John Seewart
Normutt
May Eater
Courke
Glenares
Orde
Notice of Premiums by the Dunuis Society
From the Dunuis Society three premiums of Fen pounds each were promised for best pieces of Da mark Flowered Suk and Paduiways made in this Kingdom. Candidates may present specimens on the first Thursday in October next before the King’s Birth Day and Parliament sitting. Further notices will publish when claims for premiums on draining bog and sowing or planting are required in 1742.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunuis Society
Newspaper notice on subscription for books and entertainments
An 18th century coffee house advertises elixirs and entertainments with prompts for notices. It lists works by Rev Thomas Surxi and translations, with plans to publish in four volumes reduced to three, including terms for subscriptions, pricing, and publicizing subscriber names. George Faulkner and Thomas Basta are named bookstlers in Essex Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peintine
Sunscriprios
Tuomas
Thomas Sheridan
Kirt
Pastor Fido
Ely
Menten
M. Thoma Sheri
George Faulkner
Thomas Basta
Essex-Street
Journal of the Royal Navy Power and History
Bookseller notices advertise Jaf Poblith'd by G Ewtne at Angel and Bible in Dame Street. COMPANION AND MERCHANT MAN's CONVO describes the Military Power and Duty of all orders in the Royal Navy of Great Britain with commentary on the flag and naval honours. Also advertised is a description of the Windward Passage by J Cowley and other maritime readings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaf Poblith
G. Ewtne
Os Angel
Bible
Dame
Ele Sallor
G-R.e.at-Bb
J Cowley
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Chapel- Izod
Garriit Dalton
The
Dunst Society
Theatre Royam
Bacon
Corper-House
Paris
London
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