Charity notices of petitions and benefits for prisoners
The text lists payments and relief for debtors and prisoners totaling 1281 4s 7d and notes petitions approved or referred for characters. It announces locations where beneficitions may be received at The Thatched-House Tavern and via various firms in St James's Street Fleet Street Lombard Street and related sites, with a meeting at the Secretary's Craven Street on the first Wednesday in September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beith
St. James’s-street
London Excharge Banking Company
McGr
The Housekeeper's Valuable Present Or Lady's Closet Companion
An 18th century manual by Robert Abbot presents methods for boiling and clarifying agar, preserving fruits in syrups, making marmalades jams and pastes, syrups and confections, cordials and made wines, biscuits and ice creams, and various other kitchen arts. It notes Abbot's apprenticeship with Negri and Gunter and claims originality and practical utility for housekeepers and families alike.
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Robert-Abbot
Messrs
Negri
Gunter
Berkeley-square
C. Cooke
Paternofter-row
Meffrs
Berkley-square
Gutter
R. Abbot
Berkley Square
Auction Notice for Broad Street Snuff and Tobacco Premises
To be sold by auction by Mr Drummond at Mr Ibbersons George and Blue Boar Inn Holborn on Thursday 28th at twelve o clock. Premises No 17 Broad Street Bloomsbury a long established snuff and tobacco manufactory with retail shop and rentals over one thousand pounds per year. Twelve years of lease remain at a rent of 42 pounds per annum with land tax allowed. View on Monday and before sale. Printed particulars at the premises and with the auctioneer No 10 Broad Street Bloomsbury.
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Broad-street
Bloomsbury
Fourteenth of July Praise Across Great Britain
A plain citizen offers tribute to English and Scottish readers on liberty and religion. He praises those who extend blessings of liberty beyond local prejudices and notes Christianity as a force softening war and slavery’s horrors.
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Great Britain
Friends of Liberty
Civic Freedom Through Christian Europe’s Ages
A letter traces civic liberty from ancient Greece and Rome to Christian Europe. It argues Christianity preserved freedom, then enabled later servitude to grow through bishops and feudal abuses, leading to Magna Carta and emerging Commons power. The piece reflects on bishops, slavery, and the rise of free cities shaping modern liberty.
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Greece
Rome
Great Britain
Sparta
Curator Givitatis
Burchard
St.wpeter
Wormé
Europe
Roman Empire
Commons
Milan
Italy
Miramuet
England
France
Germany
The Miss MILBANKS and the Castle of Colchester Mystery
A fragmentary tale describes two young ladies confined in Colchester Castle and a singular incident linked to them. The obscure report hints at a wonderful but factual event that may astonish future readers when the names are recalled.
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Colchester
The Strange Visitor Named Montagu and Colonel Strafford
A tale from a newspaper describes two imprisoned young women who received letters signed Montagu praising their looks and seeking an interview. A gentlemanly figure in Wales arranged a meeting at Bocking Essex, with a courier and a dapper- dressed man calling himself Colonel Strafford. They dined, waited, then the stranger left for London with payment settled, leaving the sisters and father puzzled by the Colonel's true identity.
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Humphries
Montagu
Evening Mail
Wales
Bocking
Essex
Ingatestone
Strafford
London
Jury Finds Not Guilty in Brett Murder Trial at Kineston
Grand Jury indicted Brett for the murder of Robert Ewart in Kineston. After seven hours of examination and arguments, the jury returned a Not Guilty verdict to a crowded courtroom. Prime sugar price rises affect refined sugar costs. Havre de Grace slave trade activity climbs amid higher slave prices. May 7 reports reward for information on tar and feather attacks in Dominica. Malaga grape plants aboard the Lord Hood thrive. Martinique inhabitants flee to Dominica amid colony unrest.
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Brett
Robert Ewart
Havre-de-Grace
West-India Islands
Africa
Dominica
John Blair
Malaga
Lord Hood
Martinique
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Craven-street
Strand
Wm. Wilberforce
James Chamners
William Ives
Fuller
Fredgriveeck
Mathew
William Scullard
Efy
Drummond
Sidney Devreux, Esq
the Friends OF Liberty
Prece
Fuly
Epior
Famaica
Kineston
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