Advertisement for Steers medicines at Paul’s Church Yard
An old advertisement touts Steers medicines including Steers’s Elixir and Opodeldoc, Husham’s Tincture, Camomile Drops, and Paregoric Lozenges. It claims long tradition and quality, lists wholesale and retail sales, and notes stamps allowed with purchase at Mr. F. Newbery’s No. 45 Paul’s Church Yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Steers
Old
Bond- Dee FY
Piccadilly
Brice
Mr. Steers
Wr. Steers
Husham
British Colour Company paints and preservatives advertised
The British Colour Company proclaims continued manufacture of wood preservatives and weatherproof coatings. It promotes paints in linseed oil with various prices per cwt or pound and lists products like green, olive, red, brown and white lead. Addresses No. 4 Walbrook, London.
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Wood
Troy
Dtc. &T
Frich
British Colour Company
Walbrook
London
Lazarus Indicted In Robbery Ring At Hemmings Shop
Lazarus charged with receiving stolen plate and goods from Mr Hemmings after a planned break in. Seville and Thornbury named accomplices. Trial described with detailed cellar entry, removal of bricks, and evidence from witnesses including Dawdy and Dawdy’s master. Judge cautions Lazarus. verdict not guilty for Lazarus, death verdict for Seville.
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Wenesday
Lazarus
Phey
Cornhill
Hothorn
Fleet Street
Yranscomb
BISH
Hemming
Bond
Horn
Seville
Moses
Thornbury
Séville
Whitechapel
Yorke
Basil Fisk
Mefirsi, Roach, and Co
Filx
Mr. H’s
Geir
Thomas Cope
Gross
Bazarus
Trials in Oxford Street Theft and Forgery Case Bundle
Indictments include Mab and Richard Brows for robbing James aceds dwelling, with bank notes and a guinea stolen. Linton, Seville, Thornbury, and others face charges of receiving, handling, or conspiring in theft across Oxford Street and Holborn. Trials reveal forged receipts, stolen plate, and a rape allegation ruled Not Guilty. juries convict for stealing packing cases and receiving stolen goods. circumstantial evidence cited by Judge Goose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bintet
Richard Brows
James Aceds
John Burnley
Oxford-street
Préwa
Pnoe
Linton
Brown
Benneath
Merdjaou
faudge-Goose
Verdi&t
Wellin Innis
Charles Burn
Hunter and Spencer
Toba Alb
Ash
Guily
Capital sentences in old arraignment court tale
In a solemn bar scene ten convicts faced the Recorder who urged repentance and confession before death. Feremiah Reading was convicted of forgery. Valentine Harris robbed a dwelling. Thomas Glover and John Glover stole in dwelling-houses valued at various sums. Richard Clements, William Bradfield, and Samuel Young faced theft and highway robbery charges. James Randall, John Seville, and others were named for multiple crimes. Twenty were ordered transported, twenty imprisoned and whipped, eighteen given stayed judgments pending service in the army or garrison.
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Feremiah Reading
Valentine Harris
Elizabeth Jones
Lhomas Glover
John Glover
Richard Clements
William Bradfired
Samuel Young
James Randall
John Seville
Febn Seville Wright
Hemmings
Amy
Garyss
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Grish. Englis
Ilie
Seuritie
Margate
French-Horn
Limehouse
Dawdy
Hatton Garden
Bow-street
Hin
Jonn Scot
Fisk
William Calcutt
Bok
Liméhouse
Rhare
Pearock
BP Rree-Clolttireet
Justice Grose
Flip Smits
Spies
James Marghan
Fung Nan
Portmouth
Francis
Marfigll
Staples-inn
Swhich
van Seville
Wright
Ichard
Hiemming
John
Pueda
Charles Thornbury
No. 100
Holborn
Brownlow-street
Horg
Thornsbury
John Miller
William Millikin
Johanna Murphy
John Shorpfin
Hewis
St. John
Flowis
Fielding
Howis
Kennedy
Veér
Guzly
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