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Newspaper

London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Dec 01, 1767

Page

2

The Complete Farmer first number advertisement

An 18th century prospectus announces The Complete Farmer or a General Dictionary of Husbandry printed in Folio copper plates. It outlines breeding, gardening, beekeeping, and farming methods from noted authorities with a subscription plan and overplus delivery. Also advertised are asthma drops from Mrs Atkinson and Dunn and Taylor with claims of immediate relief and long storage.

War Publiford Lester Piper Hail Numata J Linnius Chateauvieux Marquis of Turbilly Plat Evelin Worlidge Mortimer Tull Ellis Miller Hale Society For the Encouragement of Arts, &c London Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce S. Crowder J. Cooke Paternoster Row T. Hookham New-Street Hanover Square Chase

Drowning at Plaistow Described As Feckin Remarkable Acccident

A resident reports the drowning of Mr. Jeil near a pond in Plaistow after he watered his horse. Local youths’ alarm was initially ignored due to a prior false fire alert, and by the time help arrived Jeil could not be saved. The writer reflects on life’s uncertainty and divine purposes in a moralizing aside.

Mortimer County of Mertford William Hunt Mr. Hunt Fleet-Market London Barnet Watford Rickmans Bedford Dunstable George Luton C. Nicholls St. Al'Be Beill Portewts D.D. Regor Lambeth Peterborough Canterbury T. Payne Mews J. Rivington S. Paul's Church-Yard T. Merrill Cambridge Oxford Gs Knapp Todd and Co York Sexmon House of Commons St. Margaret's Westminster Price E. R. Lowruer Golden Lamp Hatton Garden Corke Paternoster Row Paillet Princes-Streets Leicester-Fields Plaistow Jeil Joel Don St. James's Lord North Banbury Oxfordshire Exchequer Whitehall Charles Townshend Thomas Bradshaw Harwich King’s Arms Tavern Cornhill Alderman Trecothick City of London North America Barlow Trecothick Vintry Exeter John Tuckfield John Walter Elgis Pimlico Guildhall Gros Prizgs Reogl Cach

Death’s warning on life and virtue amid trade respite

A reflective meditation urges readers to value eternal welfare over worldly wealth. It cautions against greed and warns that a life bent on money will leave the mind in despair. It ends by hoping the sketch guides youth toward virtue and temperate, pious conduct.

Murder and social distress across towns in late November

Reports from Plymouth Bristol Newcastle Warrington and more detail a murder by three mariners in Plymouth, a Brislington man killed his wife after an unsettled marriage, a Dumfries adjutant change, horse distemper and market pressures, a large fire at Guilsborough, petitions for poor relief, and clerical appointments in Birmingham noting stormy social conditions and rising prices.

Plymouth Martha Woodroffe Exeter Bristol Newgate Benjamin Hall Brislington Temple-street Temple-gate Cherry-lane Newcastle Wetwang March Dumfries Griffin Horsenadier Guards Walker All Saints Newbrough Hexham Ann Simey Warrington Lancaster Preston Liverpool Northampton Guilsborough Gloucester Cirencester House of Commons Birmingham Kay Coughton Wartwickshire Pearkes

Local notices from Bath to Sherborne and market prices

Reports from Bath, Salisbury, Sherborne and other towns describe arrivals from Stourbridge after a fatal blast. Market prices show wheat per quarter from 6s 8d to 66s 8d, barley 25s to 29s, oats 50s to 29s, beans 32s 6d to 42s 9d, and pease 38s to 46s 3d. Also noted are a charity gift of 100 guineas to the mayor, a large fire destroying a wheat stack, a will transferring estate, and mutton prices rising as rotten ewes are culled.

Dudley Stourbridge Countess of Scarborough Lord Gormston Richard Acton Col. Campbell and Lagg Sesser Devizes Sas Salysbury Mr. Fox Sherborne Hunt Hill Bridgewater-market Winchester John Gould Upway Mintern Godaimin London

Portnew 5 and 1767 Atlantic Shipping News

Shipping notices from Cowes and Deal include arrivals and sailings for New York Jamaica London and Lisbon with vessels such as Cranbrook Antelope and London Merchant. Additional reports cover parliamentary moves, appointments, and a projected horse and foot guards education fund.

Portnew Cowes Franklin Winn New-York Daniel Bryson Cork Cranbrook Suttice London Jamaica Devonshire Williams Neptune Bell Prince of Wales Rogers Antelope Gray Gibraltar Deal Dec Isabella Richardson Lisbon Leyton Taylor Quebec Rovers Worral Chester William Jefferys Liverpoole Maynard Nevis Catherine

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