London Citizen Seeks Help Against Exeter Town Dues
A London goldsmith resident in Exeter petitions the Court of Common Council alleging Exeter Chamber unlawfully detains his goods to force town dues. He cites Henry II charters granting Londoners freedom from tolls and bans on defending trade, urging the court to protect city rights and prevent hardship to his blue-maker manufactory.
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Ednesday
Guildhall
Thomas
Amies
London
Exeter
E——r
England
Noorthouck Hf. Lond
Chamber of Exeter
Court of Common Council
Sabbath observance urged by Bob Short to gentry
In a General Evening Post note to persons of distinction and fortune, Bob Short urges a serious turn on Sabbath. He asks carriers to walk to church if weather allows and servants to attend divine service, arguing the virtuous example would deter tippling at alehouse doors during prayer and thanksgiving.
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Bob Short
Sherfelf
Islington
America
Hawke
Higkwayman
Newgate
Turnham-green
Churl-court
Goodman’s Fields
Cule
Hapfa&tor
Deptford
Topping
Hampshire
Landaff
Henry Coles
Tawistock-street
Covent-garden
Hall
Paternofters Row
Cambridge
Townshend
Birmingham
Skiffwall
George Townsend
Brooke
Bath
Henry Adams
Shrewsbury
Epictetus on true friendship and the perils of envy
An aged essayist argues that true friendship is tested by adversity not by possession. Epictetus, in a parable about dogs and a bone, warns that love fades when wealth or power enters, citing Eteocles and Polynices and Menelaus and Paris to show how passion and ambition corrode bonds.
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C. Pictetus
Epietus
Eteocles
Polynices
Menelaus
Paris
Foreign Intelligence Dispatches From Rome and Europe
Reports from Rome note Duke of Cumberland visiting Civita Vecchia and saluted by ships, plus his dinner with Cardinal de Bernis. Bologna and Warsaw describe religious reforms and unrest, while Oudrenne fire devastates a village near Thionville with fatalities. Toulon orders six regiments for Corsica as tensions rise and General Count de St. Germain returns to French service.
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Hour of Commons
Wiasachusers Bay
New England
W--lace
C—per
Raf
J--nings
S--bridge
George S--ile
House of Commons
Air
Calder
Selby
Thomas F
Parliament of Scotland
Whitworth
Howard
Colonel Jennings
Paris
Germany
Count Lafcy
Vienna
Count Broglio
Strasburgh
Toulon
West Indies
Roth
Rome
Amsterdam
Arfente
England
Justice Fielding
Georgia
Cowes
Charles Town
Parker
Newfoundland
Newmarket
Lord Abingdon
Transit
Lord Farnham
Mr. Wentworth
Lord Clermont
Gregile
Duke of Cumberland
Aldobrandini
Civita Vecchia
Royal
Cardinal de Bernis
France
Bologna
Lombardy
Warsaw
Thorn
Prussia
Oudrenne
Thionville
Corsica
Count de St. Germain
Upper Assembly Passes Bank of Scotland Capital Bill
The Upper Assembly yesterday enacted a bill to empower the Bank of Scotland to increase its capital and passed another measure to prevent inconveniences from naturalisation bills. A first reading was given to a bill for the East India Company to snap teas, along with several public bills.
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Ondon
Bank of Scotland
East India Company
St. Giles’s
North America
High Water Times at London Bridge Schedule
Tomorrow early morning and evening tides listed as 21 minutes after 5 and 6 minutes after 6. Monday shows 6 after 6 and 7 after 7 with 20 and 23 minutes respectively. Tuesday records 48 minutes after 7 in the morning and 25 minutes after 8 in the evening.
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London Bridge
Theatrical Ents on View with Classic Plays Tonight
Daily listings show Daury Lang presenting Thedé fius and The Con juror. Evening performances include Twelfth Night with The Elope ment and Covent-Garna. Also Macbeth with The Country Mad-Cap. King Henry the Eighth pairs with The Padlock. Market summaries note bank stocks India and South Sea and Old/New Ann. rates and a 178 3 percent figure.
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Daury-Lang
India
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Navy
A.sco T. A. M
University of Paris
Richardson and Urquhart
Royale Exchange
G. Robinson
Hemisphere
Commodore Byron
Wallis
Carteret
Captain Cook
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