A Salopian Brazier Honored in Loyal Toasts to England
A poem extols Winsantey and the Brazier community in Shrewsbury, praising their patriotism and charitable acts. It lauds Lis Uncle’s bequest and a Journeyman Brazier named Yasetin WihRanley who supports his family and funds a fifth of an annuity for national defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley
Salopian
Britain
Subscription
Rhivtis Triafon
Grance
Old England
Antey
Yasetin WihRanley
Shrewsbury
England
Auction of East India Goods and Cookham Estate Sale
An 18th century notice lists sales by order of HM Customs at the Custom-House London on April 17 and 13 1798, including silks, lace, broad goods, gunpowder, and numerous items with viewing points at Mangle's Magazine and Tobacco Ground. The second lot describes the sale of the Cookham estate near Maidenhead with house, outbuildings, gardens, and 12 acres of meadows, with viewings and inquiries through Baxters and Payn and Ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Custrom-House
London
His Majesty’s Customs
Custom-House
East India
East- India
Cambridhs
Mangle’s Magazine
Barking
Essex
Greensand Dock
Rotherhixhe
King’s Tobacco Warehouse
Tower-hill
His Majesty’s Warehouse
Wobe
Mantin Dale
Thames
Cookham
Berks
Maidenhead
Wooburn Mead
Odney
Baxters
Martin
Furnival's In
Halborn
Meis
Payn
Specific Cure for Toothache and Rheumatic Complaints
An advertised remedy named Complin offers a safe immediate cure for toothache swelled faces and rheumatic complaints without harming gums or nerves. Sold in various bottle sizes from 6d to 28s, by multiple London chemists and retailers including No 181 Hopate Street, Royal Exchange agents, and others. Complin’s Powder for cleaning teeth is also sold.
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Petor
Eaveare
Hopéeate-Fireet Without
London
y.Mir
Tutt
Royal Exchange
G. Brown
St. Paul's Church Yard
Bickerstaff and Co
Aldgate
Amick and Co
Haymarket
Clark
Borough
Moore
Fleet-street
Wade
Old Bondfigeet
Wye
Coteman-Street
Thourtle
Strand
Pidding
Oxford-street
Complin
Discoveries in art and vegetation from a chichester paper
An ingenious Chichester artist claims a cheaper linseed oil substitute that saves color and adds body for house painting. It reports experiments by Sir Francis Ford on oxygen's effect on plants, noting water impregnated with oxygen boosts growth and color intensity versus ordinary water, and questions how best to supply soil and water with oxygen.
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Chichester
Francis Forp
Ciiefly
Priustley
Death of Nasor Vizier Asz s ub Dowran Shifts Power
Historic report from Romany Chifaren recounts the Nasor Vizier Asz s ub Dowran’s illness and death after a day of mourning and amnesty. The Begum weeps as charity is distributed, Pirroo Mrrpan gains rank, and Mirza Vizier Att SanETZAD AH takes Sirddutree’s Killaut while nobles pay Nazurs. The Beoum Sanews proclaims sovereignty over the realm.
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India
Asz
Ub Dowran
Ma‘hammed Buxsk
Becum SaneBee
Begum
Pirroo Mrrpan
Becum Sauesee
Att Sanetzad
Mufnud
Phe Beoum Sanews
Court Martial at Dublin over 6th Regiment officers
On March 1 a Court Martial at the Barracks Dublin acquitted Captain-Lieutenant Hamilton and Lieutenant Dawe of all charges. Assistant Surgeon Waters was found guilty of part of the first charge and the second, for destroying a print of Prince William and drunken disturbance, but given leniency with a private reprimand after long confinement. The proceedings were led by Lieutenant-General Craic.
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Barracks
Dublin
Wa. Hamilton
Dawe
Waters
His Majesty
6Th Regiment of Foot
Colin Cimenech
Craic
Laughlinstown
Royal
Prince William
6Th Foot
Lavehlinstown
Hamilton
Jouy Dawe
Reyel
Prince Witrtiaat
Grou- Cester
6Th Regiment
Lancaster
Hexbeth Butler
Liverpool
Larkin
Bank of England
J. Dawsen
L. Porter
Ruffton
Margaret
Somerset
John Tunes
Doberlatt
Thomas Clarke
George Brooks
John Hearlet
Edav
Felrum
Bence
Williams
Gibbs
Traac
Taunton
Sarah Fames
Ilan Phillips
Fames
Sarah Furner
Fame
Glasgow
Sunda
Africa
Warwick Assizes Opened with Address by Sir Nasu Grose
The Warwick Assizes opened for General Gaol Delivery before Sir Nasu Grose. Prisoners faced varied verdicts from theft of wax, umbrella, quicksilver, and barley to sheep stealing and oats. Sentences included transportation for seven years, hard labour, and periods in prison, with a notable judgment against frivolous assault cases.
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Warwick
Nasu Grose
Thomas Griffith
Percy
Mary
Allén
Merrit
Timmins
Moore
Timming
House of Correction
Thomas
James Endsor
James Glover
Mary’ Tyfo
Colethil
Francis Helmes
John Florence
Fobn Hilton
William Davis
Tamworth
Michael Tork
Allen Huron
Clews
Bedworth
Fosiph. Cocke
Coleskill
Lincoln Supplementary Militia 750 Embodied at Stamford
Stamford report notes about 750 Lincoln Supplementary Militia embodied at the locality, totaling with portions of the 5th Regiment and the 44th to around 1200 men amid current military mobilization. The piece also records a Derby legal action for damages over lost sugar from a sunk boat caused by a tempest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stamford
Lincoln
Justice Grose
Storer
Derby
Methrs. Hollingshead
Gainsborough
Trent
Dispatches and spies noted by Gravesend troops find sailor life saved
In Gravesend on April 4 the 21st Regiment of Light Dragoons moves dispatches and spy intel for coastal defence. A sailor attempted suicide near Rochester road but was saved when a passerby on a roof cut his hanging kerchief with a knife, mourning life lost and lamenting the kerchief more than his act.
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21St Regiment of Light Dragoons
Rochester
Gravesend
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Arts and Sciences
Eigth
Nanos Viziete Et Mu-Maluck Aserh
Dowzah Bewadur
Nisl Prius
British Navy
Great Britain
Line
Downs
North Seas
West India
Jamaica
America
Newfoundland
Cape of Good Hope
Indies
Portugal
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Chatham
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