East India Loan Bill Debate Over Woollen Exports
In a lengthy June debate, MPs examined the East India Loan Bill and its export terms for Great Britain woollens. Governor Johnstone warned of stock losses from long cloths, while Jenkinson and North argued for reform to protect domestic manufacturers and avoid ruinous monopoly effects. The amendment was adopted and the bill ordered engrossed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.ouse
Common
East India Loan
Owper
Brain
Johnstone
Great-Britain
India
China
Gulf of Persia
Therm
Jenkinson
Sulivan
William Meredith
Sir William
King Williams
Leadenhall-street
Lord North
Dheir
Purling
Antiquities of Plants and Early Introductions to England
A historic account outlines when Linacre introduced the Damask Rose and other plants, noting the Pervigian Plumb, Apricot by a priest, and later hops, artichokes, cherry orchards near Sittingbourne. It records Gardeners and imports from Flanders, currents, and the 1578 emergence of the Tulip in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linacre
Thomas
Wolfe
Henry VIII
Sittingbourne
Kent
Fféhy
Flanders
Harris
Carnan
Edward VI
Elizabeth
Edmund Grindal
Canterbury
Zant
Knight Sir Francis Carew's Cherry Tree Supremacy Feat
Hugh Platt recalls a legend of Queen Elizabeth dining with Sir Francis Carew at Beddington. He supposedly fed her cherries from a tree grown under a tent that shaded and watered the fruit to delay ripening, then uncovered it for a perfect harvest just as her Majesty arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Platt
Francis ‘Carew
Elizabeth
Beddington
England
Shipwrecked voyage tale of coral rock hole and salvage
The narrative describes a ship aground on a steep bank with tents set ashore to house the crew including the sick. On the 22nd a hole in the hull was found, blocked by a coral rock fragment that likely saved them from sinking. Repairs were made and boats searched for another passage, returning July 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Banks
Solander
Endeavour
New Zealand
Parkinson
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M. Oldys
St. Martin In the Fields
William Dodd
S. Seacroft
Globe
Charing Cross
S. Bladon
Paternofter-row
Ireland
Henry the Second
That Kingdom
Thomas Leland
Trinity College
Dublin
J. Nourse
T.longman
G. Robinson
Paternofterrow
J. Johnson
St. Paul’s Church-yard
J. Robson
New Bond-street
Paris
W. Bayley
Perfumer
Cockspur-street
Hay-market
London
A. Rothwell
New Bond
Tunbridge
F. Newbery
John Newbery
W. Bailey
Haymarket
Glass
Prince of Wales
Oxford
W. Davis
Iniccadilly
W. Nicoll
St. Paul’s Church
Jacob Hemet
Amelia
Hemet
France
Italy
W., Bayley
Cockpar-street
J. Price
India-house
N. B
Miss Purdie
Bath
J. le Boon
J. Southern
St. James's-street
Selec
House of Commons
East-India ‘Company
Theatres-Royal
Edwards
Royal Academy
Shakespear
Hall
J. Bell
Exeter-Eichangs
Fuly
Great Britain
Evry
Port Rees
Thames
Daniel Paterson
His Majesty
T. Carnan
St. Paul’s
Wales
Scotland
London Companion
Hackney
Westminster
Southwark
Father Quesnel
M. de Voltaire
Zara
Telemiathus
Ulyses
Cambyay
Annals of Antiquity
R. Johnson
R. James
M.D
Long-Acree
Cornhill
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