Remarkable rescue by Lord William Campbell at Healey upon Thames
In 1765 near Healey upon Thames a drowning man was spotted by Lord William Campbell and Lady Aylesbury and others. The lord sprang into 46 foot deep water, retrieved the man trapped under a tree, blooded him, and he soon revived. The rescued man was a servant of Lord Palmesston visiting nearby. This act demonstrated the lordship’s humane conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Campsett
Charles Town
Peter
Aylebury
I Campbell
Conway
Damer
William Campbell
Healey Upon Thames
Varied Dispatches From Senegambia Quebec and Europe
Postscript details dispatches from the Lieutenant-Governor of Senegambia aboard the Mary, with letters from Quebec about a wrecked French ship carrying gunpowder and arms for the Provincial army. It notes Colonel Gordon shot near St Johns, Congress ire at Dunmore, and Admiralty board summons. Also reports on Leghorn ships, Genoa firm, Russia Arch-Duke wedding reparations, Paris races, and London crime and market items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senegambia
Mary
Smith
Quebec
Gulph
Str Lawrence
Venus Fiacket
Portsmouth
Lakes
Canada
Gordon
St. John’s
Virginia
Congress
Old Dunmore
Navy
Board of Admiralty
Leghorn
Phe Marie Josephe
Trieste
Genoa
America
Algiers
St. Peterburgh
Russia
Wirtemberg
Prince Orlon
Italy
Imperial Palace
Europe
Paris
Versailles
St. Petersburgh
Grat
Plain Des Sablons
Letcer
Jones
Windsor
Kildare
Jackson
Lottery Ticket Fractions Quoted in 1776 Ad
The ad markets Lottery Tickets by Hazard and Co. as divided into halves quarters eighths and sixteenths with emphasis on fair division and assignation of shares. The notice promotes investment in tickets framed as a public lottery and outlines fractional portions available.
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Lottery
Ly Hazard and Co
Fragmentary note from Biatt-Lettaly office in MS 33
Fragmentary OCR reads as a garbled note mentioning an office, royal high rank, an account, and a ramping crown with hazards and a lorréry officer. Names and details are unclear, making precise identification impossible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brohars
Biatt-Lettaly
Ander
Haszard
Lorréry
Public Lottery Tickets Sold at No 11 Poultry
Wextian and Ce announce the sale of tickets and shares for a lottery beginning November 1 at their office in the Poultry opposite Grocer's Valley. They claim no tie to any other office and pledge the lowest prices with prompt responses to letters and posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wextian
Grocer’s
CalcuLATION inquiry offered at High Holborn number 67
Readers urged to visit No. 67 High Holborn to hear Mr Motesworth explain and justify the CalcuLATION claim. Authorities cited as support. Ventures urged to seek admission and full satisfaction on the calculation.
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Motesworth
Welfron Iite
Lottery Shares and Chances Offered at Cornhill and Charing Cross
Rhuakbsen and Gooptuck announce the public that Gickets Shares and Chances in the present State Lottery are sold at Nos 101 and 164 Bank Buildings Cornhill and No 8 facing the King's Mews Charing Cross. Adventurers may save nearly half the purchase by choosing Chances over Shares while still entitled to all prizes over twenty pounds.
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Rhuakbsen and
Gooptuck
Cornhill
King’s Mews
Charing Cro’s
Notice of General Court Election of Directors 1777
The Court of Directors of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies gives notice of a General Court at Leadenhall Street on April 13, 1777 to elect six directors for four years. Voting rights are defined by stock holdings: 1000 or more stock yields five votes, 6000 stock yields three votes, and 10,000 stock or more yields four votes. only stock in the holder’s own name qualifies.
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W—l
Loerds
Alderman Thomas
St. Petersburgh
Great Britain
Stanstead
Hertfordshire
Baron Perryn
Old Bailey
Justice Gowld
Justice Ashurst
Whitechapel
Goat
Shirelane
Templebar
Hicks’s Hall
Charles F
Harrison
Harding
Swallowe Street
Brentford
John Humpage
Hyde Park
Humpage
Justice Addington
Robert Smith
Fell
Nan
Sir John
John Collins
Harmonion
Foote
Mr. Green
Morgan
Townsend
Stark
Mr. Lomax
St. James’square
Swift
Newgate
Francis Rivington
Barnet
Holloway
Islington
Turnpile
Ivis
Transpore
Bath
Prence
Bristol
Bath Fourral
Cox
Lovell’s Court
Paternofter-row
Ludgatehill
Chester
Penthenmawr
Char
East-India-House
United Company of Merchants of England
East-Indies
Leadenhall
Vouk
Annuities Usury Sparks Calls for Legislation in Post
The General Evening Post reports a reckless man ruined by annuities posing as usury, sparking condemnation by Jews, brokers, and usurers. The piece urges legislative action to curb such practices, accusing a cream-coloured Squire of spreading rumors to shield himself and alleging ties to a money-pander.
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General Evening Post
Post
Britain
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Postscript
Fellons
Olt
Bailey
Wm. Wood
Solomon Fell
Holborn-row
Lincoln’s-inn-fields
London
Bridge
India
Andie Ditta
Bank Ask
Ditto Cid Ara Thut
Ditto New
Ann. Navy, &c. Billa
Bank Long
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