Post Office Advice on Handling bearer Notes and Drafts
General Post Office guidance from 1792 urges cutting bearer notes and drafts in half, sending them separately, and awaiting receipt of one half before the other. It also instructs secure handoff to clerks for valuable items and details specimen bank note handling and safety measures to be posted in post offices nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Post Office
Postmaster-General
London Gazettes
London
Anthony Todd
Thomas Styles
N. B
Society for the Discharge and Relief of Debtors Meeting
The Society reports discharge of 82 debtors from various prisons and approval of 45 petitions. 16 petitions referred for chastisers and 7 rejected amid benefaction collection points including Thatched House Tavern, St James's Street, London Exchange Bank, Hoares Fleet Street, and others. Books viewable at Craven Street Strands where monthly meetings occur on the first Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chasaders
Neild
St. James’s-street
London Exchange Banking Company
St. James’s Street
Hoares
Fleet-street
Meirs
Fuller, Son, and Co
Lombard-street
Biddulph
Ridge
Charing-crofs
Dorrien and Co
Finchlane
Cornhill
Ransom, Morland
Hammersley
Pal Mall
Vere
Lucadeu
Broughton
Small
Lorobard-street
Sir James Sanderson
Harrison, Breichley, Bloxham, and Co
Southwark
Craven-street
Auction Notice for Freehold Dwelling in Bury St. Edmunds
By LAVER OLIVER at noon on Monday October 15 the freehold dwelling with brick front in Muttoon-Arcet near Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds. Property includes hall, parlours, study, seven chambers, kitchen, brewhouse, cellars, coach house, stables, garden, and outbuildings. Apply to L Oliver, cabinet maker, Bury St Edmunds. letters prepaid will be answered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laver Oliver
L’estrance
Muttoon- Arect
Angel Hill
Bury St. Edmunds
of Suffolk
L. Oliver
Urholder
Comprehensive view of the manifold uses of sheep
A historical reflection extols the sheep as a versatile, innocent provider of cloth food and work. It traces wool production from sheep through dyers and weavers to merchants who supply global riches, noting leather and parchment uses and the cycle of coat replacement and sustenance, framed as Providence’s bounty for man.
Leather, lamps, and stage fighting in Essex pondered
A review traces leather’s varied uses from parchment to gloves and furniture, notes how sheep aid households, then reports on stage fighting events near Colchester. It details Hooper vs Bunner and Stanyard vs Gambold, including rounds, bets, and post-fight discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colchester
Chelmsford
Bentley
Hooper
Stinman
Bunner
Sach
Williams
Ryan
Johnsson
Sharp
Stanyard
Birmingham
Gambold
Joe Ward
Tunbridge letters recount stage life and politics 1797
An extract from Miss Fanny Flighty at Tunbridge details theater goings on with Miss Farren and actors CamperLane and Badcock, plus fashionable Tunbridge society. It also discusses French king Louis XVI in sympathetic terms and warns Europe of Jacobin threats, urging strong action to stop revolutionary spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny Flighty
Tunbridge
Paulina Prate
Grosvenor-Squiare
Farren
Messrs. CamperLane
Bapcockthe
Mr. B
Hamlet
Horatio
Despemona
Tory Lumpkin
Miss Mackworth
Sir Herberty
Tord
Gay
Invalids
Sheridan
Leinster
Provisions Dearer Now Than in Forefathers’ Time
The writer argues provisions cost more due to changes in rural life. Farmers now travel in fancier conditions, hosting meals with hot suppers and wine, while landlords raise rents to fund improved lifestyles. The contrast implies rising costs pressuring both farmers and suppliers.
The Royal Family of France in Captivity
The combined powers show interest in the unfortunate Monarch confined in captivity. Their concern inflames the faction that has seized control of France after overthrowing the throne and the church. They are unsettled by the very idea of the monarch’s title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis the Xvith
Althou
Moriiz
Brifer
Gorfas
Condorect
Monareix
Louis
Europe
Ankerstrom
Leopolp
Poiguard
France
Lorraine
Alps
Pyrenees
Great Britain
Normandy
Brittany
Mediterranean
Provence
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John Doe
Bank of England
Richard Roe
Society For
Strand
Lord Romney
Earl Radnor
Obert Herries and Co
Geo
Woolfle
Ditta
Geo. Normany
Fuller, Son and Co
Richard Akerman
Primate
D. P. Hearnden
Poff
Countes
Buckinghamshire
Cocks and Ridge
A. B
Marsham
M‘cleland
Knight
Green Grocer
Blue Cross-fir
Meffis
Dorrien and Coome
Higgens
Essex
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