LOST TICKET NOTICE AND ESTATE AUCTION ADVERTS
Public notice details a lost lottery ticket with five guinea reward and caution against misdrawn tickets. The page also advertises a six lot auction of Warwickshire and Staffordshire estates near Sutton Coldfield including Aston Hall and surrounding lands, with tenants and rents described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairy
Cornhill
London
Shirs
Warwickshire
Sutton Coldfield
Warwickhire
Aston Hall
Shenfton
Stafford
Clas Browne
Barr
Aldriage
Afton
Midridge
Willian Temnant
Aston Force
Bourne
Dei
Beach
Warwick
Leonanders
Tenhant
Birmingham
Lichfield
Walsall
Theodore Price
Hill Hook
Lot
Sheniton
Coldfield
Ogen
Tennant
Shenstone
Thomas Lagae
Lota
Croxall
Solomon
Mathews
Strand
Manchester Gazette
Bronpum
Albion-street
Blackfriars
Bridge
Martha Jackson
Levershulme
Lancashire
Withefes
W. Coworoy
Hunter’s-lane
J. Singleton
Wiz As
E. Newbery
St. Paul’s Church-yard
Tutt
Royal Exchange
Jeboultarid Co
Bacon
Oxford-street
Pidding’s
Medicine Warehouse
Williams
Pall-mall
Bowdton
R. Bacon
Norwich
P. Foster
Ipswich
Keymer
Colchester
Gedge
Middleditch
Bury
Downes
Yarmouth
Martha
Progress of the Population of London Before Bills of Mortality
The article traces London's growth from obscure settlements to a major city, detailing fires, Viking and Norman upheavals, plagues that shaped population, and early efforts to pave streets and regulate growth. It notes 40,000 inhabitants around 1140, plague losses in 1348, 1407, 1478, and 1499, and proclamations from 1592 to 1603 to curb urban expansion and publish mortality bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pilots Rescue Beaufory Vessel Then Lose Brazen Shipwreck
Lewes day reports pilots James Ashcroft and William Hill from Newhaven risking their lives in a small boat to save the Beaufoy of Dover after it drifted crippled near Seaford. The Brazen loop of war, with eight guns, was driven onto Ave Rocks at Newhaven, wrecked with 120 crew lost except one saved via a launching trough. The Beaufoy’s master Henry Atkins thanked the pilots for steering through a dangerous sea to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janes Ashcroft
William Hill
Newhaven
Seaford
Beaufoy
Dover
Henry Atkins
Plymouth
Woolwich
New-haven
Pyutt
Hamson
Ave Rocks
Wight
Portsmouth
Ancient churches fall into ruin in recent centuries
The article notes several English churches collapsing in sudden ruin over the past five decades, including Whitchurch in Shropshire around 1730, Lleréford Ca cathedral front in 1786, St Chad in Sheentong, and Banbury in Oxfordshire in the following year, each reduced to rubble in a moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitchurch
Shropshire
Lleréford
St. Chad
Sheentong
Banbury
Oxfordshire
Edinburgh Fares to Rise for Hay Prices
Magistrates of Edinburgh approve higher tramper fare increases of fourpence per shilling on each load to cover hay and oats costs while price relief lasts. New rates apply until hay drops to one shilling per stone and oats to eighteen shillings per boll, then act fares resume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ackney
Carincit
Aberdeen
Cayenne
Gottenburgh
Perlefé
Lime
Bertolin
Arrado
Parisot
Corn Riot convicted at Huddersfield riot
At Wakefield General Quarter Sessions Martha Bray Emma Holland and Abraham Broadbent were convicted of rioting during the Huddersfield corn riot of November 19. Bray led the seizure and sale of wheat at six shillings per bushel. Holland bought corn. Broadbent kicked a magistrate's horse. Bray jailed one year in York gaol. Holland and Broadbent three months each in the House of Correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leeds
Wakefield
Martha Bray
Emma Holland
Abraham Broadbent
Huddersfield
Radcliffe
Rad
Michael Angelo ‘Taylor
Ghomix
Peccse
York
House of Correction
Sessions Roundup Punishments and Mile Allowance Noted
At Hants Sessions Michael Suligan and Mary Ann his wife of Gosport were convicted of uttering counterfeit silver and sentenced to six months imprisonment with securities for good behaviour. The court granted an extra sixpence per mile for waggons impressed under the Mutiny Act due to high provender prices. At Gloucester Lessons the Overseers of Stanton were convicted of wilfully disobeying a Justice order to repay Cirencester’s Overseers sums advanced for a militia family’s support. they face three months imprisonment after repayment. At Wilts Sessions in Devizes John Loveridge was found guilty of stealing a small pocket of hops from a road waggon and sentenced to one year in the cells. At Chelmsford Quarter Sessions HW Rorell, a shoe-maker, was jailed twelve months and fined 50_l. R. Dunsiead, for breaking the manor pound lock at Ori et, released cattle, sentenced to one month, unless discharged earlier for sea service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hants
Michael Suligan
Mary Ann
Gosport
Gloucester
Stanton
Justice of the Peace
Cirencester Fach
Cirendsier
Wilts
Devizes
John Loveridge
Chadwick
Glox Keller
Chelmsford
Rorell
Suffolk
Oriet
Fox Sea Service
Spilsbury’s Antiscorbatic Drops Advertised at Soho Square Dispensary
A historic notice touts Spilsbury’s Antiscorbatic Drops as a remedy for scurvy gout and nervous afflictions. It promotes the product as a curative path at the Soho Square Dispensary No 15 and claims endorsement by patent medicine sellers nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soho Square
Spilsbury
Also Mentioned on This Page
Messrs. Hornssy and Co
Cornwill
Loxpon
MawneuHester
EpInsurGu
Bist
England
Julius Clar
Suetonius
Boadicea
Alfred
Agai
Peter of
Henry I
Holborn Bridge
Holborn
Southwark
Gray’s-Inn
Shoe
Nichols
Charing-cross
St. Jamies’s Park
Chancesglane
Moorgate
Shoreditch
Spitalfields
Bethnall-green, &c
Westminster
Lewes
Jay
Edinburgh
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