A Seasonable Hint to a GREAT ASSEMBLY
Aristides laments clergy non residence and neglect of duty and rebukes British MPs for neglecting law and economy. He cites coffee houses and gaming halls as corruption, warns that luxury drains the nation, and urges Senators to reclaim seriousness to avert ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evening Post
House of Commons
Treasury
Admiralty
Pantheon
Almack’s
Car- Faee Houte
Aristides
Abfrae of a bill against unnecessary removals of the poor
Preamble notes the difficulty for the poor to obtain settlement certificates and the risk of being moved from places where they work. It bars removal until chargeable except in listed cases, requiring written notice of abode or, for a pregnant single woman, potential illegitimacy concerns, per earlier statutes.
Examination of settlement under parish law rules
Text describes required oath based examination by Church warden or Overseer on a person’s last legal place of settlement. Written record to be produced with warning of penalties. If refused, offender to be dealt with by law. False accounts admissible as evidence in prosecutions.
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Sach Parish
Tate
St. James's
Buckingham-house
Kew
Gunnerfoury
Gloucester
Cumberland
Sorthumberland
Sion
Alnwick Caffle
Pennington
Kensirng
The Man or Business at Covent Garden Playhouse
A detailed contemporary review of The Man or Business at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden. The plot centers on Beverley, his banker partner Fable, Lydia from India, and Denier. It follows financial peril, marriage prospects, and class satire, with misdirection, secret debts, and eventual reconciliation. Prologues and epilogue note the author’s stance and plagiarism joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theatre Royal
Covent
Beverley
Lewis
Fable
Bensley
Tropick
Woodward
Golding
Shuter
Denier
Lewes
Quick. Handy
Dyer
Lord
Riot
Mn Davis
Helter Skelter
Fox
Rakish
Owenson
Gardner
Cashh
Hamilton
Hazard
Cushing
Snap
Thompson
Capias
Kniveton
Greéd
Carleton
Pitt
Flounce
Helme
Lydia
Bulkeley
Bengal
Golding Them
Indies
Depner
Admiralty
Court of Chancery
di Eorcey
Eable
India
St. James's
Handy
Mrs. Flounce
Old Golding
Winterton
Mr. Golding
Mrs. Golding
Shire Lane
Snap Dand
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Colman
Rachel Russell
Woburn Abbey
Lord Russes
John Dalrymple
É&C
C. Dilly
Je Robson
New Bond
J. Water
Charingcross
Murdoch Mageskenzie
Stirling
London
England
Wales
T'Ntick
Great Britain
Dr. Nugent
Entick
Stackhouse
Ath
Dr. Lowth
Mar
Stretch
Childres Baes
Sefety
Prine
Corbi
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