Boat Race Festival On the Thames Near Richmond
A Friday festival at Floneur in Floneur? on the Walps's Rireboday featured a boat race for apprentice watermen whose terms expired between August 1773 and August 179, with entries drawing lots. Crowds filled houses, bands played, guards watched from riverbanks, and Queens bay-featured royal procession arrived around five. The event ended with teams rowing to Richmond then Assembly-room celebrations, amid general harmony and no major accidents.
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Fburiday
Floneur
Thames
Richmond-bridge
Sis
Charles
Afill
Royal Nursery
Kew
Lacy Cowperts
Richmond
Lief
Brad
Phe
Ho Gatibot
Roebuck
Kent
Charles Asgill
Pheryal
Sheadlic
Debates on Adultery and Social Influence Begin
An aspiring writer proposes a series of letters to the editor tackling whether adultery is a crime or merely fashionable in refined society. He asks whether the greater injury comes from debauching another’s wife or from habitual libertinism, pledging to explore the question in forthcoming installments.
Mails from Holland and War News Across the Atlantic
July 29 dispatches describe European tensions with Portugal and Russia, movements of troops to Porto Rico, and naval actions near Charles Town. Reports detail intrigues at Dietines, ambassadorial dealings with France and England, mutinies at Vienna, and a broad mix of press notes on politics, commerce, and local crime.
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Mang
England
Indies
Portugal
Porto-Rico
Claes
Pedro de Cevallos
Plas Hug
Geral
Rusia
Dyer
Dietines
Oid
Wieo
Gnemne
Bravest Captain Mopris Wounded and Amputated at Sea
An 18th century dispatch dated June 8 reports Captain Mopris of the Brifigi manor, after his forearm bones were shattered by a chain shot and a bullet wounded his neck. He was taken to the cockpit where he submitted to amputation. the surgeon details the procedure and his condition aboard.
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Brifigi
Mopris
State Lottery Shares Sold at Hazarp and Co Office
Tickets are sold and divided into halves quarters eighths and sixteenths by Hazarp and Co Stack Brokers at their State Lottery Office No 93 under the Royal Exchange and nowhere else on that account All Shares sold at the above office will be stamped with the Crown and found it Mazard s Lottery Office
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Hazarp and Co
Royal Exchange
Mazard
High Water Signals At London Bridge Reported
A fragmented notice reports high water timings at London Bridge with forecasted peaks tomorrow morning and tonight. Details are unclear but indicate multiple tides and specific hours for the rising and falling water levels across the day.
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London Bridge
Thessay
Stock market prices and bonds in a 19th century list
A compact, dense listing of financial instruments including stocks, bank annuities, India bonds, and Navy securities with quoted percentages and prices. The fragment shows 4 percent and 5 percent style yields, and notes on bank annuities, old and new issues, and lottery tickets.
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India
India Bonds
Pr. Navy, &c. Bibs
Bank
Long Ann
Serio
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Tuthe
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Parker
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Vackall
Parcs
Mizen Yard
Admiralty
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United Provinces
London
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Lew
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Lower-street
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Iaz
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Ordnance-office
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Jones Ela
Des Po Herguttse Mieunr
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William Locker
Eat
Malling
Cambridge
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Alderman’ Newling
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Hereford
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Ross
Linton
Hervey Barrow
Worcester Journal
Price
Cale
Wil
W. Morris
St. Paul's Church
J. Admas
Piccadilly
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