Acts to regulate trade and raise taxes amid floods and murders
A notice reel of acts for apportioning taxes and preventing potash fraud, plus a revival of an old act aiding eastern Indians. Reports claim Earl of Egmont and Sir Charles Saunders arrived in London. St James’s palace repairs proceed, and a French ambassador swap. Flood data from Roxburghshire, gold found by a merchant's maid, and multiple marriages and deaths. Robberies nearby and court actions against Elizabeth Brownrigg and her son. Madeira and Hamburgh dispatches, prize seizure in the Irish Channel, and advertisements for Warren’s Imperial Milk of Roses.
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Great George Street
Westminster
Count de Chatelet Lamont
Count de Guerchy
France
Exeter
Philips
Greenland
Margate
Burchinton
Isle of
Thanet
Hawith
Shire of
Roxburgh
Marybone Church
Madan
Stillingslee
Merton College
Oxford
Earl of
Dartmouth
Katherine Mackworth
Ks, Mackworth
Upper Grosvenorfizeet
Cornwall
Marylebone
Samuel Withes
Oir Suuiday
Newgate
Henry Sumner
Jatt Fellons
Mr. Saunders
Hornchurch
Essex
St. Pancras
Elizabeth Brownrigg
Mary Clifford
John Brownrigg
Wandsworth
London
Peele
Fleet-street
Owen
St. Dunstan’s
Wingrave
Constable
Deacon
Flower-de-luce Court
Wandworth
Ballle
Rill
Poultry Compter
Mansion House
Gregory Page, Bart
Blackheath
Kentstreet
John Cooper
Robert Spooner
Sir John Fielding
Bow Tstreet
Trickenham
Wiley
High Holborn
Maidstone
Pennenden Heath
Luoyod
Madeira
Amsterdam
St. Eustatia
West Indies
Plymouth
Elbe
West Florida
Neville
Douglas
Ile of Mann
Warren
Richard Warren
Marybonne-Street
Goldenquare
Cook
Paternoster-row
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Letter from Hans Hamilton to Dr Lowther in Hatton Garden
A preserved letter from Hans Hamilton an Esquire Counsellor at Law addressed to Dr William Lowther at Hatton Garden London. The brief missive records professional legal correspondence between the two figures and reflects the formal style of 18th century lawyers in London.
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Hans Hamilton
Efi
William Lowther
Hatton-Garden
London
Dublin
Lowther
Reputations and Critics in a Glorious Age
A letter listing underappreciated poets and prose authors from the era, praising Nat Lee Richard Savage Elizabeth Rowe and others while noting their works and obscurities. It laments misplaced fame and anticipates further discussion on deserved reputations and the role of critics.
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Nat. Lee
Addison
Ofdipus
Mithridates
Theodosius
Czxfar Borga
Lucius Junius Brutus
Richard Savage
Thomas Overbury
Wanderer
Pomfret
Stephen Duck
Elizabeth Rowe
Joseph
Beaumont and Fletcher
Locke
Baxter
John Bunyan
Orivicus
Fresh Earth Scent Promotes Health and Longevity
A letter argues the smell of freshly turned earth and field effluvia restore health and longevity. Citing gardener David Watts's death at East Barnet at age nine, the writer asserts earth’s vapors nourish life and urges people to work the land for well being. Pro SANITATE signs off.
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East Barnet
David Watts
Sharpe
Millis
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