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Remarkable Wives and Trades in an 18th Century Letter
In London a long, fragmentary notice recounts varied items including a man with thirty wives, a merchant named Franks worth about three hundred thousand pounds, clerical livings inquiries, and royal appointments. It notes weather, naval measures, sermons, and sensational crime reports from Pyrenean caves, with further mentions of births, marriages, and market prices in Chelsea and Smithfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Franks
Tele de Bendit
M.jnd Ghirdon
Philip Gery
Lharenaire
Gereval Ghureh_ inff
Dragoonss
Bidir
Lord Harrington
Will
Cartwright
Deeeasd
France
Prince Eugene
Prince of
Hesle-Rheinfélls
Barchés
Bouteon
Fisran
Hanover
England
Europe
Berlin
Sobiesky
Spain
West-Indies
Threadneedie-Street
Spiclee
Cornwall
Duke of
Kingston
Tetuan
Bashaw
William Finch
Turin
Earl of Essex
Cotorck
Henry Berkeley
Deetas
Pancrals
Diccher
Totteme