14 Oct 1773
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Newspaper
General Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 14, 1773
Page
1
A Paris dated report notes Count d Ea resigns all estates to the King except one life interest for 1 760 000 livres to settle debts and a life annuity of 1 200 000 livres The Warsaw letter adds that a Polish government plan limits royal power and risks provoking a royal abdication if forced into execution
A Nottingham cheese fair reports price ranges from 2 78 to 3 08 per cwt for small lots on the first day and notes that on Monday wagons arrived from across the county bringing more of the cheese causing prices to drop to 25 per cwt.
Wind southwest winds. Arrived and sailed for the river. the Martha Lewis from Cape Fear and Prince Maffarerra Dowfon from Malaga. Carrie down and remain with Dolly Fincher for Liverpool Salisbury Tarver Beulah Jarvis from Portsmouth and Three Brothers Guy for Padstow. Gravesend October 13 Passed by George Powsier from Senegal and Lady Catherine Dyke from Bremen. Arrivals at Dover Kitty Thomason from Tortola. Oporto Milford Lever from Quebec Bristol Elliot Squire from Oporto and Hope Butler from Malaga.
A Wednesday General Court in Leadenhall Street, London, of the Proprietors of Eas-India State affirms changes to bye laws. It expunges a bond requirement for Supercargoes and Officers, revises public notice timing for annual elections, and adjusts the Directors printed lists and election clauses. The 22d bye law is reworded against past Parliament attire, and the 29th bye law now sets February for company affairs statements due to uncertain June ship arrivals.
A period piece compiles brief notices on court actions, parliamentary candidates, naval appointments, wind storms, animal husbandry questions, and crime near London. It covers adjournments, freight discussions, new ship orders, public works, a tornado near Nottingham, highway robberies, a drowning, drownings, and multiple local marriages and deaths with names and places.
An advertisement offers a life annuity of up to a thousand pounds for a man about forty. Security must be from freehold estate or public funds. personal security rejected. Respond with details and highest percentage by letter to Mr. Ruffell or Mr. Ward.
Notice of sale by private contract or parcels of land in Algarkirk Ter and surrounding areas. Details include 382 acres and 77 acres general measurements with a road access to Sitcerie house, pasture grounds, a right of common in the West fen, and several lands in Sipsey, Boston and Skirbeck. Mr Jol Brotherton, Mr William Higdon, Mr John Scrimber, Mr Jol Broughter, George Kitching, and Mr George Smith to show the lands.
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