Remonstrance to King George III in the General Evening Port
Fragmentary OCR yields a 1771-era remonstrance text. It mentions Brian, Martha Bird, and a petition to decrease wages, tithes, and taxes, with archaic spellings and nonstandard words. The legible portions reference protests against dearness of provisions and a critique of the era, consistent with colonial port town discourse.
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du Answan
Mantua
Brian
Martha Bird
George the Third
Humaxus
Clergy and Professions Plan September Meeting
London July 19 177%. General Meeting of the Clergy and the Professions of Law and Physick fixed for September 2 at the Greatmen s Tavern Strand from eleven to three. The aim is to seek relief from Parliament on subscription to the 39 Articles. Proposals for the application to Parliament are sold at Fleet Street Poultry St Paul s Churchyard and Cornhill.
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London
Church of England
Freatmens
Strand
N. B
B. White
Fleet-street
C. Dilly
W.narrit
St. Paul's Church-yard
W. Davenhill
Cornthill
Canal Navigation from Leeds to Liverpool Fourth Call Notice
Notice by the Committee of Proprietors for canal navigation payments. Proprietors must pay 5 shillings per 100 pounds of subscription to John Hustler of Bradford or Meff Synith Wright and Grey in London by August 26. If payment is defaulted, a forfeiture of 5 1 percent will be incurred under the act.
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Leeds
Liverpool
John Hustler
Bradford
County of
York
Meff
Synith
Wright
Grey
London
John Feustler
Aé. N.B
Helen Higgenson
John Higgenson
Manchester
Lancaster
Hockeller
Yvine
Thomas Watson
Clifford’s Inn
William Statham
Auction Sale of Bugle Hall Mansion House and Property
The auction advertises sale by auction in pass on Wednesday at three o'clock afternoon at the Dolphin Inn. Spacious mansion with stable yard and garden joins Bugie street extending 300 feet to the river Blew with an underground cistern. Suitable for trades requiring space or an elegant dwelling. plans and pictures available through Mr Bedwell in Ave Mary Lane London and Mr Le Gay, Attorney at Law, Southampton.
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Dolphin Inn
Bugle
Bugie
Bedwell Law
Avemarylane
London
le Gay
Arthur Hammond
Southampton
This Day was published Four Volumes of English History
This advertisement announces four volumes titled The History of England from the earliest times to the oath of King George the end. By Dr. Goldsmith. Printed for T. Davies Covent Garden and for Cadell Becket in the Strand and P. A. De Hondt in the Strand.
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England
George
Dr. Goldsmith
Ft. Davies
Ruffel-streat
Covent-garden
Cadell
T. Becket
P. A. de Hondt
Strand
A Twenty Shilling New London Spy Humorous Tale
An 1771 price two shillings sewed in marble bound volume with frontispiece. It purports to provide a ramble through London’s bills and high life, detailing mansions in St James’s and Covent Garden scenes, theatres, gaming houses, masquerades, and the various lively inhabitants of the metropolis. It offers portraits of Bloods Bucks Babies and many others, with notices of reformers, watchmen, and public life, published by Shepherd Cooke Lewis and Mariner.
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London
St. James's
St. Giles’s, &c. Eremake
Coventagarden
Metropolis
T. Shepherd
Minories
J. Cooke
Paternotter-row
M. Lewis
Roffel-street
Covent-garden
R. Mariner
Compton Treet
Soho
Proof of London's Right to Thames Soil by Embankment Quit-Rents
Letter to the editor discusses whether the City of London held a real right to the river Thames soil. It explains Parliament's 4s ground rent for embanked ground and 1 penny per foot for city land, redeemable after twenty years, as acknowledgment and compensation for wharf owners and city expenditures. It argues this proves the city's soil rights.
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General Evening Post
London
Landom
Thames
Bloodshed Report From Granfyoni Encounter
A July 14 dispatch from Bafia notes the Granfyoni brothers fought French troops after marching with a large force of bapditti. Much blood is said to have been spilled though details are unclear.
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Flanders
Bafia
Granfyoni
Warfaar
Vistula
Paris
Compiegne
Royal gathering at Gunnersbury House hints at Kew gift
Sunday event reports Prince of Wales and Bishop of Gfhnburgh dining with Princess Amelia at Gunnersbury-house. Princess Dowager of Wales may present Kew Gardens to the Prince. Bill of Rights Society contemplates public ads urging Opposition leaders to back triennial Parliaments and redress public grievances catalog. If terms rejected, patriotism questioned. The Premier reportedly says the House of Commons will prove before next Christmas.
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Prince of Wales
Gfhnburgh
Amelia
Gunnersbury-house
House of Commons
Real Friends of Constitutional Freedom Questioned in Debate
The piece discusses a likely plan by Lord North to restore triennial elections after the current Parliament ends. It cites a claim that a policy offers five guineas for a hundred if Mr. Wilkes is executed at Tyburn during his shrieval year, and recounts a debt dispute between Mr. Wilkes and Sylva with notes and drafts torn up by Wilkes. It ends with a late night talk at an entertainment where critics mock political figures and affirm opposition against passion and violence harming the constitution.
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Lord North
Alderman Wilkes
Tyburn
W——s
Haac Fernandes Sylva
H. W
Mr. W
Infant
Sylva
Mr.Wilkes
Wilkes
Horne
Middlesex Journal
Mr. Wilkes
England
Junius
House of Commons
Pashion
Brentford
St. George's Fields
Tower of London
Oliver
Reform in penal laws and frontier neglect in a historic overview
In tract-like prose the piece argues for reform of penal laws in the next sessions, criticizes zealous opposition to constitutional rights, and notes England’s neglect of Mississippi borders while Falkland Islands concerns are pressed. It mentions Sir Joshua Reynolds heading to Paris, park improvements near Buckingham Palace, timber profits aiding park expenditures, and political figures like Lord Temple and Lord Edgcumbe. It records theatrical and artistic plans, actors and managers, Greenland fishers arriving at Hull, a method to destroy weevils using ants, a York robbery suspect, a marriage in London, another at Holywell, and the death of Dr Thomas Holdsworth.
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Europe
England
Falkland Island
Spain
New Orleans
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Paris
Royal Apartments
Buckingham-house
St. James's Park
Queen's Palace
Tomes
F. B. Delaval
Tower
Newcastle
Lord Temple
William Duncan
East Florida
America
Mr. Garrick
Lord Edgcumbe
Devonshire
Lord Lyttelton
Hagley
Worcestershire
Lee
Bath
Benjamin
Thomas Redhead
Manchester
Mumphrey Foord
Ace
Hull
Greenland
Himelf
Charles Coop
York
William Agnew
Killwagter
Ireland
Sir George
Colebrooke
Allbaitiowg
Barking Church
Tower-street
Cromwell
Million Bank
Miss Morfe
Morgan Morfe
Queen-street
Leeds
Holywell
Chester
Hughes
Totty
Te'ennight
Thomas Holdworth
Wakefield
Hints to a Nabob and South Briton Fr ou Next
Fragmentary OCR hints discuss a Nabob and a South Briton and a future Tuesday. Mentions Amiens’s Anecdotes and forthcoming correspondence. Text is unclear but indicates literary or lettered discourse with named places and figures.
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Anabob
Lonninensis
Amiens
High-Water at London Bridge And Stock Prices Mixed
Reports note high water at London Bridge with times listed for morning and afternoon tides. Market items show Bank Stock at 155442, India Stock at 217, South Sea at 3 percent, Bank Annuities reduced to 377 88, and several Confol and Austies related figures amid unsettled notes.
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London Bridge
India
Dagat
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