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Newspaper

General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jul 18, 1775

Page

4

Dissolution of Weatherby Hegggs Partnership and Asset Sale

The partnership between Benjamin Weatherby and the executors of John Hegggs is dissolved after the widow’s death. The lease of the old warehouse with stock and trade is to be disposed of. Inquiries to Thomas Sheppard, Weatherby at Burr Street, or the warehouse. Creditors and debtors urged to present accounts or payments to George Ray.

Benjamin Weatherby St. Catharine's Tower London Potterang John Hegggss John Hiegohs Thomas Sheppard George Ray

Loyalist thanks to Lord in a Boston political pledge

Postscript from a royalist assembly in a colonial borough praises the King for defending church and state against ministers seen as threats to liberty. It pledges unyielding support, outlines resolutions for unlimited liberty of speech, American taxation resistance, and punishment of dissenters, and signals readiness to tar and feather collectors. It also cites foreign moves, naval orders, and local market prices to illustrate unrest and global tension.

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London Levee After Admiralty Board Special Business

London reports that Lords Commissioners attended a levee at St James's on special business after the Admiralty Board's breakup. Troops sent to America have not arrived by June 12, delaying operations until the end of the month. It is suggested troops may be ferried by water from Boston to cut off the Provinces' retreat.

Roxbury Constantinople Spain Court of London France Europe West Indies Lara Salem Nova Scotia Canada 1St John St. Laurence St. John’s Newfoundland Boston Gibraltar America Norfolk Virginia Capt. Cook Cape of Good Hope Glasgow Solebay Liverpool Chatham St. Ann Folkstone Hamoaze Charlotte Portsmouth Beckford Curling Jamaica Austin Havanna Stainforth Cape Leadenhall Market Whitechapel Olloway Admiralty Board St. James’s Iris Bolton Neck Monnay Louis XVI Varre Rheims Kingdom of M. de Figeral Bull Bath Cadell Brittely Hawes

Wide-ranging London and Bristol Press Roundup of Trials and Marriages

Yesterday four presented to the Rev Samuel Proor at Gaweby rectory, Lincolnshire, passed the Great Seal. A Brecon native was jailed for counterfeiting coins including 42 bad half crowns. four pounds in bad shillings found. Thomas Withall, executed yesterday, implicated two others in a Cloysters robbery, claiming gates of Christ-hospital were opened by keys. A man jailed at Wood-street for assaulting his wife. Rev George Borlase died at Marazion. Mr Carter, mayor of the Three Tuns in Southwark, robbed of silver watch, 19 guineas, and three bank-notes by a lodger. Dr Ashworth, tutor at Daventry academy, died. William Priestley of Field Head died at Leeds. Thomas Witham of Cliffe married Miss Thornton with a fortune of God.

Samuel Pro&or Gaweby Lincoln Brecon Thomas Withall Miss Lamb Cloysters Mifsamb Withall Chirt-hospital Wood-street Oxford Carter Three Tuns Bristol-street Southwark Ashworth Daventry Northamptonshire Leeds Fieldhead William Priestley Great St. Helen’s London York Yeterday St. Michael-le-Belfrey’s Thomas Witham Cliffe North Riding Miss Thornton James Thornton Nether- Witton Northumberland

Vegetable perfumes and medicinal claims in London shop notices

An 18th century advertisement by Richard Warren of Mary-le-Bone claims a Vegetable System of Perfumery avoiding animal extracts and hawks a Milk of Roses for skin and Volatile Essence of Lavender. It promotes Balsamum Animabilis and references stock prices and lottery tickets in a mixed public notice, Bath shops listed and schedule details included.

Richard Warren Mary-le-Bone Ftreet Golden-square London Great Britain Ireland Paternofter-row Turnyridge-Wells St. Andrew’s Terras Miles’s Court Bath Ufe Houghton Royal Exchange Southern Park-place St. James's Street

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