Notice for tender and Westminster election bids 1779
Public notices from April 1779 announce sealed tenders for sick and hurt seamen care to transport French prisoners to Jamaica Antigua and Barbados with tender deadline on April 30. Also a Westminster election appeal by Viscount Petersham requesting votes and diligent attendance if vacancy arises. Saint Albans and South Mims turnpikes trustees plan bid for tolls at White Hart on May 6 with deposits and rent security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Antigua
Barbados
Tower-hill
Viscount
Petersham
Great Britain
Earl of Harrington
Werminster
Parliamacar
Westminster
Malden
Saint Albans
South Mims
Midalsex
Shifford
Hertford
White Hart
Herttor
St. Albans
Thomas Gape
S., Athans
R. Ovter
William Kentissh
Auction of nineteen brood mares at Turf Coffee-House sale
By Mr Tattersall at the Turf Coffee-House near Hyde Park Turnpike on Monday the 1gth instant at twelve o'clock. From the Earl of Abingdon estate, nineteen well bred brood mares catalogued after viewing. Metaphysician to cover mares at five guineas a mare and five shillings the groom. turf cover at three guineas a mare and five shillings the groom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tattersall
TURF
Hyde Park Turnpike
Earl of Abingdon
Subscriptions received by London bankers under committee orders
1013 subscriptions continue to be received at Meff Walpole Cirk and Co bankers Lombard street Meff Welch Runghrs and Co Cornhill Meir Mildred and Walker Grace church street 3 Meff Chambers Hercy and Birch Lond street By order of the Committee Thomas Bod dington Secretary
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walpole, Cirk, and Co
Lombard-street
Meff
Welch, Runghrs, and Co
Cornhill
Meir Mildred and
Walker
Grace-church-stree
Chambers, Hercy and Birch
Lond-ftreet
Thomas Boddington
Declination of East India Company election candidate John Amyand
John Amyand writes to the East India Stock proprietors from Laurence Pountney Hill on April 12, 1779. He notes his name was announced for reelector of the East India Company but he declines continuing as a candidate while thanking friends for their support and indicating honor-bound colleagues will support his omission.
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W. Bayley
Cockspurr
London
William Bayley
Lecanner
East India Company
John Amyand
Laurence Pountney Bill
Salisbury
William
Newman
Mathec Place
Thalle
Maiderhead
W. Newman
Faint Military Ranks List From 44th Foot to Fencible Men
Fragmentary roster listing officers and ranks across multiple regiments. Names include James Lieth and Abraham Blick with Lieutenants and Ensigns. Other entries reference Alexander Wright Phineas Mackworth Praed John Gordon Thomas Livingston James Spens and various regiments noted as foot and fencible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Lieth
44Th Reg. Foot
Abraham Blick
Alexander Wright
Sth Reg
Foot
Phineas Mackworth Praed
John Gordon
Thomas Livingston
James Spens
News From Abroad and Europe on March Dispatches
A digest of reports dated March from Halland Stockholm Berlin Madrid Paris Brest and Ile Road noting Sayre’s negotiations in Congress delays in Silesia and Saxony military payments for April armament efforts and fleet fitting including ships on stock and naval losses. royal illnesses and measures in Spain and France. ongoing port works and ship movements.
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Stockholm
Sayre
American Congress
Berlin
Teschen
Pescer
Silesia
Saxony
Madrid
Corunna
Paris
Elizabeth
Spain
France
England
Brest
Ile Road
St. Esprit
Sogans
Biea-Amé
Royal births and naval news from London dated fragments
London reports a favorable smallpox progression for Prince Adolfus Frederick and Princess Mary. Admiral Sir Charles Hardy remains ill with gout, jeopardizing fleet command. Queen's College repairs receive a royal grant. Obituaries note Lady Dowager Viscountess Montague at 80. East India dispatches arrive. privateers and prize captures near Falmouth and Land’s End noted, with reports of rapid convoy movements from St. Helena and Torbay.
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Prince Adolphus Frederick
Mary
Charles Hardy
Queen’s College
University of Oxford
Jaf
New Norfolk Street
Viscountess Montague
Anthony
Viscount Montague
Lord Waldegrave
John Webbe
Lord Petre
Madrass
Pondicherry
East India House
Eagle Packet
Plymouth
East Indies
St. Helena
General Post Office
Falmouth
Granville
Kemberge
New York
Torbay
Neckar
Joyce
Guernsey
Brest
St. Maloe’s
Murder and naval prize news stir London gossip
Fragments recount a Paris retaliatory mood and multiple ship captures by French privateers off Scilly and near Bre men. Miss Ray’s murder case shocks Covent Garden society with executions planned, Hackman confinement in Newgate, and Miss Ray’s father a woollen draper. Troop encampments planned at Coxheath, Warley, and Portsmouth with a royal tour looming. Crimes in Clerkenwell and Newgate, assaults, robberies, and a fatal duel in Hammersmith accompany fire at Mr MacQuire’s. High water levels at London Bridge noted.
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France
George
Nelly Nelson
Bergen
Dunbar
Neas
St. Magnus
Bringman
Bremen
London
Britannia
Dancan
Fishtery
Guernsey
Scilly
Bayonne
Hackman
Miss Ray
Mills Ray
Newgate
Dr. Dodd
Tavistock Court
Tavistock-row
Covent-garden
Signora Galli
Admiralty
Chelsea
Lord Sandswich
Mile Ray
Coxheath
Warley
Portsmouth
Plymouth
Chatham
Suffolk
Salisbury
Winchester
Royal
the Prince of Wales
Elizabeth Lambeth
William Blackborough
New Prison
Mary Beachman
St. James
Clerkenwell
Mary New
Clerkenwell Bridewell
Elizabeth
Lamveth
Joseph Clark
St.Bartholomew's Hospital
Qld Bailey
Brentford
Hammersmith
Haverfordigest
Morgan Philips
John Thoms
Welch
Furze
Narbethi
John Mlogris
Eredal
M’quiers
Anouth
White Lion
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Newbery
Earl of
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Sam. Vaughan
John Pemberton Heywood
Dawson
Coachmakers Hall
Wwe
Robert Grave
East India Stock
Ives
Je Campbell
Berkenhout
Biographia Literaria
A. Donaldson
St. Paul's Churchyard
Dr. Campbel
Admiral Keppel
Hound
Joseph Baretty
Altieri
J. Neutfe
W. Strahan
J- Rivington
Fons
T. Payne
Fon
W. Owen
G. Keith
T. Lenemah
B. Law
J. Robson
J. J-hason
G. Robinson
T. Cadell
P. Kimsley
R., Baldwin
T. Evans
W. Gold- Garth
W. Fox
London Gazette
War Offices
Horse Guards
Edward Topham
Anroth Dragoons
Robert Mason Lewis
William Rowley
Thomas Lewis
William Richard Rumbold
John Edwards
16Th Reg
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21St Reg
Robert Hamilton Buchanap
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