Fire devastates Nericia town and mills in June blaze
A dreadful fire on June 6 destroyed the rich town in Nericia, burning public buildings and iron works including Nagers. Two elderly women perished. Despite distress, some looters are arrested and condemned. Stadtholder orders reimposition of a rule requiring visitors to state name, occupation, and origin to the Police Chamber under threat of 20 silver thalers. innkeepers face the same for failure to inform. Country folk bringing goods are exempt.
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Stocknaum
Nericia
Chamber of the Police
Death and Murder In Victorian England Inquests Reported
Bath July 10 A rider Mr Medway of Lulworth was killed when his horse collided with a rope stretched for toll. Dorchester area Another river find at Broadmead ends with a newborn female infant discovered in a woollen bundle and the coroner returns a verdict of wilful murder against unknown persons.
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Medway
Lulworth
Dorchester Fair
Broadmead
Tolu
T. Greenough
Ludgate-hill
London
W. Bayley
Cockspur Street
Haymarket
A. Rothe
M. Purdie
Gourt
King's Bench
T. Reg
Rom Balfam
Tola
London Dispatches Reveal Naval Movements and Armament Debate
Reports from London recount naval promotions and a royal sign-off for Howe in America. Lisbon letters note American cargoes bound for murmurs and powder. Philadelphia extracts describe the Neptune and a 12,000-troop English transport seized in harbor. An upcoming Rainbow, a Genoese-built vessel, is prepared for sea. French and Spanish merchants face allegations of illicit trade with rebelling colonies while Spain and France vow to deter South American and West Indian unrest. Duke de Choiseul may head to Vienna. the Bishop of Cleramond leaves two million livres to the crown.
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London
Lord Weymouth
Basil Keith
Jamaica
Earl of Hertford
Royal Navy
Portsmouth
General Howe
America
Lisbon
Camberwell
Forbes
Philadelphia
Neptune
Israel] Ward
Continental Congress
Havannah
Paris
Thescourt
Great Britain
Spain
North
Africa
France
South America
West Indies
North America
Brest
Toulon
Cape of St. Vincent
St.Cuba
Duke de Choiseul
Vienna
Cleramond
Liston
Bristol
Lagos
Duke de Chatres
Provence
Fleet Movements and City Trials Highlight Gloomy Times
News from Plymouth and Cadiz report fleets uniting in the Straits of Gibraltar and foreign hostilities looming over Europe. London court notes reveal a City dues case ruling for the plaintiff after arguments on corn customs and oath of freedom. Dread of impending conflict and local misdeeds dominate a brisk, unsettled period.
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Cadiz
Jail Po
Mons. de Bouganville
Lirgos
Streights
Gibraltar
Europe
Great Britain
Plymouth
Ann
Shapter
Gallipoli
Lisbon
Norifach
Fyal
Lord Mansfield
Dunning
Richmond
St. ‘Thomas’s Hospital
Garrat
Weman
Hungerford
Hackney
Hoxton-road
Caley
Spring Gardens
Old Bailey
Richard Goodwill
Jonathan Sewell
Brompton-row
Obituaries and Notices From London Areas
Penryn Cornwall and Bath area deaths and notices list several individuals with titles and residences including Harford Lloyd Esquire of Bath, Mr Greenway woollen-draper Spitalfields, Mrs Moffatt of Hanover Square, Mrs Williams of Kew Green, Samuel Sparrow Hig of James Street Westminster, John Little Bridge of Harston Cambridge, and Mr Roads Whitworth of Oxford Road.
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Penryn
Cornwall
Bath
Harford Lloyd
Greenway
A Recipe for Bug Destruction in Bedsteads
A letter shares a home remedy using quarter pound quicksilver and gum arabic dissolved in lemon juice to paint crevices in bedsteads and curtains. The author claims it stops bugs for years, recounting a prior use in an old house and urging the mixture be made by a chemist or apothecary to ensure the quicksilver is killed.
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R. M
Frensham copyhold messuage with allotments and stabling
A historical notice describes pressingly a copyhold messuage with an acre plot or more, including kitchen garden, stabling for five horses, and an unlimited right of common in Frensham Surrey. It advertises dry healthy soil near trout streams and angling access. Inquiries directed to Henry Holt in Essex Court and William Shatter in Farnham.
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Frensham
London
Farnham
Surry
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