Premiums for planting and husbandry offered by the EF Society
The EF Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce proposes premiums for planting and husbandry. Awards include gold and silver medals for acorns and Spanish chestnuts, elm species, Scotch firs, and Weymouth pines with specified acreages, planting windows, and certificate deadlines through 1773. Samuel More signs as secretary. item to be continued.
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G. Ker
Michaelmas
N. B
Weymouth
Samuel More
Ship News Arrivals From Ports On May 1
Ships arriving at Bremen Antigua Gibraltar Genoa Stangare Creek Hambourgh Virginia Moga dore Fal mouth Barbadoes Helvoet flays Africa Bristol Yarmouth Roads report arrivals from London La roche Topsham Sicily Xabia Bristol Madeira and Bristol bound vessels with captains and origins listed for each name.
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Bremen
Elizabeth, Spitker
London
Antigua
Charming Polly
Sheen
Laroche
Gibraltar
Fortune
Jenkins
Genoa
Liberty
Bishop
Lady Courtney
Mingley
Topsham
Stangare Creek
Iris
Lewellin
Valor
Jenny
Hampton
Sicily
Hambourgh
Anna Margritta
Carstens
Christina
Hilks
Virginia
Marty, Fox
William, Calvert
Bristol
Fanny
Polly
Chinehen
Gallipoly
Yarmouth Roads
John Galley
Simms
Botton
Lands Overflow in Brandenburgh Marshes
From the London Gazette April 30 reporting Hamburgh April 23 lands of 46 villages overflowed in the Brandenburgh lower marshes as the Upper Elbe burst dykes in three places. Nobility fled to garrets for four days with no aid, driving cattle into first-story rooms to save them. The disaster ruins many families and worsens winter distress with rising prices for all goods.
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London Gazette
Hamburgh
Brandenburgh
Elbe
Weser
Peasants Under Strain From Rising Sustenance Costs
Rising sustenance prices forced peasants to reduce their shelter by unthatching houses to feed their cattle, illustrating widespread hardship as essential goods outpace income.
Woman at Queen Street wakes after apparent death
In Dublin on April 18 a woman long ill in Queen Street appeared dead at a wake. On the second night she sat up and recovered, causing panic among onlookers who fled the scene and injured themselves by falling while trying to escape.
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Dublin
Queen-street
Postmaster must deliver letters with legal postage
Gloucester April 29 The Court of King’s Bench ruled in favor of Mr Stock in a suit against Richard Harris Esq Postmaster for failing to deliver a letter to his abode without extra gratuity beyond legal postage. The judgment states letters must be delivered by the postmaster to the directed recipient with only the legal postage, and the limits of delivery towns are determined by local customs.
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Country News
Gloucester
Stock
Richard Harris
Court of King’s Bench
The Earl of Sandwich Embarks for Dockyard Visit
London reports the First Lord of the Admiralty the Earl of Sandwich will voyage from Greenwich on the 12th to inspect the dockyard and war preparations at Sheerness Chatham and then proceed to Plymouth and Port South. The journey aims to clarify duties set by the Council and Surveyor of the Navy. An Dawgate Ward meeting considers an address to the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver. Sir Richard Glyn quarrels over the beadle cloak and mace, leading to the mace being given to the Inquest Foreman.(continued) A Wisbech suggestion advocates vegetable greens to prevent scurvy among seamen, praised by some for health benefits and potential utility for sailors. George Bridges Rodney departs Welbeck Street for Portsmouth to command a Jamaica-bound squadron. Clergy and naval postings listed. several marriages and deaths noted across London.
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London
Earl of Sandwich
Admiralty
Beard
Greenwich
Shernefs
Chatham
Portsouth
Plymout
Cou
Riler
Dawgate Ward
Oliver
Oliver Yettiay
Richard Glyn
Dowgate
Wisbech
Cambridgshire
India Company
Rodney
Welbecks Street
Portsmouth
Destine
Jamaica
Richard Jaga
Uitterfich
Warwick
Kilncote
Parsons
Took
Newingt N. Lied
Watford
Carpender
Jane Sutton
Sutton
Basinghall-street
Mile-End
Dyer
Elq
Pierre la Boriz
Puifailli
Limoges
France
Thurslay
Dover
Reet
Edmund W.ller
Beeconsfield
Bucks
Mr. Banks
Rotherhithe
Mr. Westtall
Hackney
Islington
Andrew Nichols
Potato cultivation praised in local pamphlet note
A letter from Belfield near Rockdale Lancashire dated February 25 presents praise for the potato. It states the tuber, though from the night shade family, is nutritious and highly useful as a food in Ireland and Britain, noting its extensive conveyance and cultivation advantages.
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America
Ireland
Walter Raleigh
How to Grow Potatoes and Prepare Ground For Wheat
A discussion on soil quality for potato crops and methods of ground preparation. Advice favors crumbling yet rich soil, careful hoeing and trenching, and warns against lazy-bed liming. Planting details cover spacing, row distance, and weed control to maximize yield and set up future wheat crops.
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Collumella
Uland
Berkley
Paine
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Ship News
London Evening Polit
Belfield
Rockdale
Lancashire
Door Fordyce
Ered Regis
Richard
Towneey
Pqouert Byfield
Sheriffs of
Lord Iayor
St. Pauls
Sir Fletcher Rye Tot
Sreaker
House of Corman
Garpeye
Lennor-Tavera
Norere
Frederick Bull
Richard Oliver
Samuel Veughan
Eigrs
Zia
Seth
Joseph H Mawbey
Robert Junzs
Erest
Y . Aetol
Hadion
N.B. Unis Magasine
Tie Avis
Robinson and Roberts
Lady's Magazine
John Wheble
London- Phaseun
Tesmorton
R. M
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