Microcosm Machine At King’s Theatre Hay Market
In the Long Room at King’s Theatre a surprising piece of art called the Microcosm or the World in Miniature by Henry Briscoe of Waltham Abbey Essex has just been finished. It is a ten foot high, six foot base mechanism exhibited to Royal Family nobility and gentry with high applause. The machine blends architecture sculpture painting music and astronomy in a moving display and is said to delight and astonish viewers from morning to night without time loss.
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King’s Theatre
Hay- Market
Henry Brisocrs
Waltham Abbey
Essex
Epsom Downs Plates at Three September Meetings
Epsom Downs Surrey hosts three plates on September 3 4 and 5. First plate offers thirty guineas for horses mares or geldings not having won fifty guineas previously. Second plate thirty guineas? actually fifteen guineas for gallows not winning fifteen guineas. Third plate twenty five guineas for horses never winning above thirty guineas. Entries due and gallows measured at contributors stables. ports and fees listed.
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Epsom
OX Epsom Downs
Surrey
Galloways
Smiths
Chac
N. B
London Gazette
Cne
Cie
Shrewsbury
St. James’s
Fulglaf
Plate
C. Co
Polls of Sussex election 1734 Chichester printed notice
Ful publish data records a poll taken by Henry Montague sheriff of Sussex at Chichester on May 16 1734 for electing two Knights to Parliament. Printed for John Coles at Temple-Bar and sold by Lee Harman. Leaf misprint due to printer Aris death now supplied gratis to complete the copy.
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Henry Montague
Sussex
Chichester
John Coles
Temple-Bar
Fleer-treet
Lee
Harman
Lewis
Aris
London Magazine July 1734 Gentlemen's Monthly Intelligencer
Advertisement for a London periodical issue describing contents such as debates in Parliament, proceedings on the Druggists Bill, land forces, army officers, political essays from multiple journals, poetry, foreign and domestic news, prices of goods and mortality tables, plus a catalog of books and pamphlets with prices. Printed for J. Wilford and sold by booksellers.
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London Magazine
Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer
Universal Spectator
This Day Intro to the Philosophical Transactions History of the Royal Society
An early introduction to the Philosophical Transactions and the abridgment of the History of the Royal Society. By Thomas Spgar, D. D. late Lord Bishop of Rochester. Printing details list several publishers in London.
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Philosophical Transactions
The
Royal Society of London
Thomas Spgar
D. D
Bishop of
Rochester
J. Knapton
J. Walthoe
D. Midwinter
Tonfon
A. Betterworth
C. Hitch
R. Robinson
Clay
B. Motte
A. Ward
D. Browne
T. Longman
Political State of Great Britain for July 1734
The July 1734 issue covers the Princess birth-day celebrated by the fleet, protests at Scottish peer elections, jury trials, notable legal cases, a wife murder case, an address from Scotland's assembly, an Irish prophet, and naval journal debates. It includes monthly parliamentary proceedings, Morion debate, and sections on marriages mortuary imports and exports.
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Great Britain
General Assembly
Scotland
Ireland
Sarlee Rovers
T. Cooper
Globe
Ivy-Lane
Paternoster Row
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Weston-Bamfield
Sherborn
Yeovill
Somerton
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Sutcon-Montague
Fituare
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Benhams
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Somerset
Samson
Inner-Temple-Lane
London
Benjamin Derby
Dorset
William Willoughby
Seles
Mere
Wilts
Toursday
Tice Six-bence
J. Wilford
St. Paul's
John Gardiner
Deceas
Newbury Farm
Herfordshire
St. Alban’s
Waterford
Edgworth
St. Paul’s
Sally Sauitsbury
Gail Waylys
James Cannon
George Williams
Sarah Thornton
Garraway
S Y
William Hawksworth
Thomas Athee the Elder
Tenby
Pembrokeshire
Anne Price
James Butler
John White
Bolton
Viscount Cobham
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