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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 10, 1764
Page
4
A Purro-PAUPER letter condemns engrossing and monopolizing in corn coal and meat. The writer mocks penal laws used to profit from price manipulation and urges faithful enforcement to curb such avarice. He hopes a due execution will teach wretches honesty and stop their iniquitous practices.
A Wakefield printed item notes reprinting restrictions on certain material. It mentions Anti-Scotus lines and a future plan for publishing a Parrior item and letters from Hants and Jersey signed by Anti-JoB BFR, Deceived, and an Encrisy Man. A Paris letter via Brussels is also promised for insertion.
From London reports two near clashes spark concern among princes and city guards in Franckfort as Electors Tires and Cologne debate rank, and Men’z dragoons clash with Franckfort burghers at gates. Elsewhere London notes calm on candle import, navy chaplains’ subsidy, and a plant of ships bound for the West Indies.
The page lists various bank stocks and bonds with numeric figures such as 117 for Bank Stock and 151 for India Stock, including entries like South Sea Stock and India Bonds 5s. pres. Some entries show half shares or dated references like 1926 and 83 3-8c, reflecting a fragmented market snapshot.
A weekly toll lists ages and diseases including dropsy smallpox consumption fever and measles with counts. Casualties show drowned killed by shares murdered and overlaid totals for males and females with christenings burials and weekly decreases.
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