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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 28, 1736
Page
3
A verse lament condemns a corrupt foe who preys on virtue and enslaves, while rallying the people to honor a rightful leader. It contrasts the virtuous with the fraudulent, depicting the tyrant’s doom as reckoned by future ages and the penalties of treachery. The piece uses prophetic imagery of mines, daggers, fires, and the inexorable judgment of the mind.
The article notes a printing error in editions of the Statutes at Large where the word Husband was omitted in the clause restricting marriage during a spouse’s lifetime. It compares the printed text with older editions and Parliament Rolls, confirms the mistake, and states the errata corrects it. The piece aims to inform the public about the omission and its rectification.
Diseases and casualties data list age and counts, including: aged 51, convulsions 325, fever 64, smallpox 40, teeth 24. Casualties mention drowned 1, found dead 1, suicide 1, overlaid 2. Christen'd males 124 females 135 total 299. Burials males 216 females 236 total 452. Decreased burials this year 112. Market notes on South Sea stock and annuities with archaic values and bank figures referenced.
A fragmented list of financial instruments and bonds including three percent annuities English copper South Sea Bonds and Exchequer Orders with various premiums and per cent references. The text reads like a ledger of prices and securities with minimal context and several unreadable fragments.
To the Freemen of Cambridge I offer myself as a candidate at the approaching election at the desire of Aldermen and other Gentlemen of this Corporation Your obedient servant Dec 1 Gilbert Affleck
Joan Herkins a Fleet-street goldsmith announces he will pay the greatest price for various sorts of plate second hand and offers new plate of fashionable quality. He exchanges old plate for newer styles with small allowance and claims strictness, no credit given or required.
East-India House notice dated December 27 1736 states the General Court resolution requiring bondholders of the 1732 issue to present their bonds by Lady Day to be marked and exchanged for new form bonds, with payoffs arranged by Lorrery as with new issues.
East-India House announces attendance for bond receipts exchange at the Treasury Office. Receipts dated on or before October 13 last must be brought, from Nox to Naso inclusive, on Tuesdays and Fridays between 11 am and 1 pm, holidays excluded.
This Day is publish'd, Fortune Telling Cards unfolding good and bad Fortune and Proverb Cards for amusement. Arithmetical Cards teaching the useful Art in a plain method. Sold at toy-shops in Charing Cross, Fleet Street, the Strand, St Paul’s, and Cornhill near the Royal Exchange.
On Thursday night a dark brown or almost black Yorkshire mare about eight years old was lost from Gillen soat grounds Yapcon near Arundel. She has a tanned muzzle and flanks, a whisk tail, walks and trots well, slight lameness from a cross-sinew in a foreleg, and bears to one side. Reward offered to return or provide notice to Thomas Billingsmrt of Yapron's prefairl or Samuel Marsh in Aldermanbury, London.
On December 25 1736 a large black gelding about fifteen hands high strayed from Samuel Osborn’s stable in Denham Bucks. Notable features include a knob under the jawbone and a small white mark behind the ears. Reward of two guineas offered for the return to Samuel Ogborn or to Mr William Biddel at the King’s Head Jun Holborn Bridge.
Printing at the Theatre at Oxford announces the New EpicTion of R. CAVE's Historia Literarea. Executors Lord Chief Justice Reeve and Rev Dr Jones endorse the project while subscriptions are urged by Methou r Strahan and others in London and by the Undertaker at Eton.
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