Lottery prizes sold by Shergold and Co in London
SHERGOLD and Co. Royal Union Bank announce prizes from late lotteries. A 20,000 pound prize was allocated Feb 1 to Mr Barnes and seven gentlemen, sharing 10,000 pounds. other named prizes include 20,600. 20,080. 10,060 and several 5,000 or smaller sums. Receipts authorize publication of parties' names. Offers legal stamped shares at high cost with further chances.
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Mesirs, Shergold and Co
Barnes
Heyterbury, Wilts
Heytsbury — L
John Snelgrove
Richard Snelgrove
Ditto
Sphere Ditto
Benjamin Burdon
John Layland
Norton
Heythbury
John Bosworthy
Upton Level
Wilts
William Hindley
Grocer
Bath
Willian Lawrence
Trowbridge
Charles Ofte
Mercer
Cornhill
William Henock
Coal Harbour
Thames
Ftreet
Warren
Leicester-Fields
The Letter of Recommendation from a Lordly World
A fragment purports to critique patronage and poverty in Georgian society. A jobless man, hopeful yet crushed, pleads at a noble door, only to be mocked by wealth and status. The scene shifts to a mock letter, showing satire of favoritism, curacies, and social ladders, ending with rejection and contempt.
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London
Turkish merchant’s tale of a tricked wife and a found heir
An old Turkish merchant returns from a two year voyage to find his wife with another man and a child he believes is Mahomet’s. He accepts the situation and raises the son, while recounting a strange serendipitous birth on a garden bench. The letter then defends reform efforts toward prostitution and Magdalen houses, arguing for humane yet firm measures to curb vice.
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Papa
Mamma
Dumpling
Christ’s Hospital
Sizar
Jovenac
Tower Hill
London Bridge
Clery
Canterbury
Shakespeare
Hts
Mahomet
Alexandria
East Indies
Dr Mizzipacu Quack Tale of Water Counting
An anecdote recounts a wife bringing water to a doctor to test her husband’s fall, with the physician counting perilous cellar steps in the water. The patient’s wife admits deception over the amount of water, exposing the quackery and ending with the husband recovering in days.
Singular Sudbury trial tests jurors over verdict
In Sudbury a Brann versus Bra prick assault case before Wiretam Strutt, Esq. Mayor, produced an unprecedented juror deadlock. After multiple adjournments from morning to night the jury declared hunger and thirst drove them to leave the room, insisting there is no law to compel a specific opinion. The court remanded them and adjourned to November while the Attorney General was asked to determine future action and penalties.
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Brann
Braprick
Wiretam Strutt
Great Britain
Glasgow Man Freed From Slavery in Algiers Escape
Scotland Glasgow October 10. On Friday arrived here Foon Roberton, a native of this place, from Algiers, where he experienced much slavery and harsh treatment, and was ran somed by the subscription of several gentlemen of Glasgow and the neighbourhood.
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Foon Roberton
Algiers
Glasgow
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Shergold and Co
Royal Union Bank
Lompard Street
Bedlam
Juvenar
Nshenstone
Juvenal
Jack
Venus
Ogleby
Touchstone
Seraphina
Demme Jack
Foppington
Pompey
Milton
Dodius
Magdalen
Majjesty
Magdalen Charity
Terence
Philo Mulier
Mizzipacu
Sudbury
Scotland
Glascow
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