Sick and Wounded Seamen Tender Notice 1780
The Office for Sick and Wounded Seamen invites sealed tenders on Wednesday February 23 to subsist sick and healthy prisoners carried to Jamaica Antigua and Barbados. Details at Tower Hill Bristol or Liverpool agents Games Fones Esq and Mr Jobn Parr. Tenders not delivered by 1pm on 23 February are not considered. To the Mayor Banff Burgesses and inhabitants of Soulhampton.
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Tower Hill
Games Fones
Bristol
Jobn Parr
Liverpool
Banff
Soulhampton
Worthy Electors of Hertford Borough Approached by Baker
Correspondence from W Baker dated January 14, 1780 expresses contemplation of an election in the Borough of Hertford. He cites health concerns delaying plans and asserts long acquaintance with voters, pledging to serve and promote the true interest of the Borough and country in the upcoming General Election.
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Geotlemen
Andrefe
Fiede
Bayfordbury
W. Baker
Bounties Offered for Jamaica Regiment Lands Sealed by King
London January 19 17b0 His Majesty orders a regiment raised in Jamaica to be commanded by Major General Rinsford. Bounties are offered to volunteers and soldiers: six guineas for enlistment by February 14, five guineas for attested by March 2, four guineas for attested by May 8. Payments at Head Quarters on the first and third Mondays monthly. James Allen, Secretary.
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London
Jamaica
Rinsford
Herchy
Promd
James Allen
Auction Notice at Kine's Arms Inn Plymouth
On Monday the 21st day of February inst and the following terms at Kine's Arms Inn Plymouth Cornwall vonless Gooner offered or by private contract notice will be given of the sale details and conditions in due course.
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Kine’s Arms Inn
Plymouth
Vonless Gooner
Northampton Meeting Notice in County Hall
Northampton January 29 1780 By order of the County Meeting I notify that a meeting of the gentlemen clergy and freeholders will be held at the County Hall in Northampton on Easter Week Wednesday at eleven in the forenoon to receive the Report of their Parliament Representatives on the instructions given this day Sheriff Rogers Parker
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Northampton
Rogers Parker
British and Dutch Affairs Dominant in London Station
In London on February 2, reports indicate no Lords business yesterday. News from New York covers General Clinton and Lord Cornwallis departing with ten thousand troops to America, with missions to the south. Dutch and British convoy disputes and parliamentary petitions by counties and cities frame a tense political scene across Europe and the Atlantic.
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House of Lords
Prefcct
Lord George Germain
New York
Innis
Corke
Clinton
Lord Cornwallis
New Orleans
Carolina
Henry Clinton
Martial Arbuthnor
America
James Francis Perkins
Plymouth
Marines
Baldwin
Eatt-India Service
George Wombwell
East India Company
the Hague
States of Helland
Iris
Spithead
Count Byland
Andres
States of Holland
Commodore Fielding
Lord Stormont
Count Welderen
St. James’s Square
York
Middlesex
Surry
Essex
Sussex
Bedford
Northampton
Huntingdon
Somerset
Wilts
Cumberland
Dorset
Southampton
Gloucester
Berks
Westmoreland
Lancaster
Worcester
Devon
Cornwall
Suffolk
Kent
Bucks
Warwick
Leicesir
London
Bristel
Liverpool
Hull
Yarmouth
Lynn
Exeter
Norwich
Leeds
Wakefield
Manchester
Birmingham
Colchester
Viscount Gage
Iopkins
Jamaica
Atlantic and Channel Shipping News and Local Notices
The St Andrew Capt Wind 1 is captured by a New London privateer and sent to Salem. The Enterprize privateer is taken by a French privateer and carried to Dunkirk. The Two Brothers is stranded near Hull. crew saved but ship and cargo lost. The Mary ran aground near Scilly and was totally lost. A Guildhall court appointed John Barrell Efq Alderman of Aldgate Ward. March 6 set to license victuallers. Mrs Feilde resigned as Sheriff’s Court judge. Marriages: Tho Whitmore to Mills Boley. Joseph Jackson to Hadfard. Wilson to Woodford Wilson. Deaths: Isaac Ladvocar. Mrs Branch. Mrs Moncaster. Mr Walklin. Cornelius Percival. Izat. Mrs Jane Arabine. AWIGH WATER at London Bridge with timings listed.
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St. Andrew
Wind
New York
St. Kitt’s
New London
Salem
Guernsey
Dunkirk
Popplewell
Riga
Hull
Mary
L&dbeater
Ostend
London
Scilly
Guildhall
Aldgate
John Barrell
William Lee
Mrr
Feilde
Sheriff's Court
Whitmore
Apley
Shrorshire
Bridgenorth
Mills Boley
Stockton
Joseph Jackson
Newgate-street
Macclesheld-street
Isaac Ladvocar
Branch
Alderman Branch
Gloucester
Bristol
John Moncaster
Kig
Bridge Enf
Westmoreland
Richard Walklin
Academy
Richmond Church
Grosvenor-street
Cornelius Percival
Izat
Poland-freet
Jane Mary Arabine
Arabine
Guards
Southampton Buildings
Scallard
Sermonlane
Daniel-Morse
London Bridge
Westminster General Meeting Calls for Economical Reform
A vast assembly in Westminster Hall led by Charles Fox and prominent figures like Edmund Burke and Wilkes urged parliamentary petitioning for fiscal restraint. They recalled the American war debt of 140,000,000 and lamented the drop in land value from 32 to 22 years purchase, urging unity to save liberty and empire.
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Westminster Hall
Hutting
Duke of Porthand
Earl of Derby
Temple
Earl Cholmondell
Lord Craven
Lord Bulkeley
George Cavendith
Frederick Cavendith
John Cavendith
Richard Cavendith
George Henry Cavendish
Colonel Barre
Robert Bernard
Joseph Mawbey
James Grenville
Richard Grenville
Thomas Grenville
Harry Fetherston
John Ramsden
Charles Bunbury
Robert Clayton
Rd. H. Cope
Flint
Crewe
Hopkins
Beauclerck
Shuttleworth
Wood
Tuffen
Acre
York
Middlesex, &c
Westminster
County of York
House of Commons
Wilkes
Speech Against Corruption and Idle Expenditure in Parliament
A reform rally denounces the Ministry for lavish public spending and navy neglect, claiming bribery funds bought House majorities. It urges constitutional associations to resist corruption, calls for a petition to Parliament, and appoints Mr Fox to present their demands to the Commons.
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House of Commons
Britain
France
County of
York
Saibridge
Fox
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