Chester Races 1760 May Events and Purse Details
A 1760 Chester racing notice outlines May events with multiple purses for four and six year old horses, two and four mile heats, and entrance fees. Also listed are conditions for the Gold Cup gift by Sir Richard Grosvenor, and a string of rules about entries, certificates, and starter penalties. The advertisement notes cocks fighting for Ten Guineas and a Main of Two Hundred Guineas in the same week.
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Chester
Richard Grosvenor
Horfes
Horfe
Thomas Cholmondeley
Eig
Edward Dicconson
Esg
Committee seeks accounts of charitable subscriptions
A notice from the Committee of Noblemen and Gentlemen for Cloathing French Prisoners requests all subscribers to transmit their collected monies and distributions to the Chairman at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand, London, to prepare an account for public satisfaction.
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Croan and Anchor
Crown and Anchor Bavern
the Strand
London
Incoming Mail from Holland to Naples News Briefs
Dated reports from Venice Vienna and Nuremberg mention naval buildup for April and continued wars. Dutch and Italian letters note increased Prussian forces and possible Russian war, while snow and thaw delay campaigns. A flood from a Rhine dike breaches land near Nimeguen, causing widespread distress.
East India Ships Arrive Home With Vast Cargoes
Paris reports advice that four East India Company ships returning from the Isle of Bourbon have reached Port L Orient with cargoes valued over 7 600 000 Livres. Toulon notes ships from Ca diz, under M de Castillon, escaped English pursuit after a favorable wind. the Minerva Frigate is said to be in Marseilles.
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Paris
East-India Company
Isfe
Bourbon
Port L’orient
Toulon
Cadiz
M. de la Clue
M. de Castillon
Minerva
Marseilles
Koopman Taal man Pieters Matter sails to Newcastle
The ship Koopman Taal man Pieters Matter, bound from Rotterdam December 4 with flax for merchants here and insured 80 percent, arrived safely after a long voyage with little intelligence. Distemper among horses in the South has spread to the neighborhood.
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Newcastle
Koopman
Port News Cruize Sails Hysecond Fleet Details
Deal February 12 reports Sailed his Majesty's Ship Aquilon on a Cruize. Other ships remain in the Downs as before with Rochester Forbes Joan Francifer Jennings Cardiff Cattle Roberts for Lisbon and Garland Rogers for Bristol. Wind blows hard from southwest by south.
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Port News
Deal
His
Aquilon
Downs
Rochester
Forbes
Joan
Francifer
Jennings
Cardiff
Roberts
Lisbon
Garland
Rogers
Bristol
French Merchants May Transport Goods by Land to Cadiz
London reports from Madrid that the Court grants Leave for French merchants to move goods overland to Cadiz if duties of entry are paid as for sea imports. Civil unrest in France grows with executions and trials in Paris. Military mobilization signals fear of a bloody campaign as guards and royal household troops prepare to march under Marshal Soult. News from Plymouth and Berwick recounts ships captured or chased by privateers, with losses near Lisbon and Jamaica. A sailor’s account describes harsh imprisonment of captured officers and men, underscoring humanitarian concerns amid ongoing hostilities.
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Holland
Madrid
Naples
Cresienzio
Genoa
Spain
Farinelli
Vienna
Archduke Joseph
Mary-Elizabeth-Louisa of
Parma
Aerts
Wenceslas de Lichtenstein
Laudohn
Bohemia
Prussia
Joan
Petersbourg
Russia
Berlin
Constantinople
Leyten
Nuremberg
Count Daun
Schwerin
Indain
Price
Masteuffel
Amsterdam
Gaz
Hamburgh
Pomerania
Manteuffel
Aids de Camp
Grypswalde
Amterdam
Cleves
Fan
Rhine
Calcor
Nimeguen
London
Cadiz
France
Paris
Readin
Prince de Sou
Yetterday
Marquis of Granby
Waldegrave
Germany
Charles Hay
America
Plymouth
Defiance
Swallow
Quiberon Bay
Cumberland
Criafe
Currie
Berwick
Kittrell
Lisbon
Eddystone
Kittell
Cap. Kittell
Lady Augusta
Wa Fun
Falmouth
Jamaica
Falkner
Jones
East India Company
Portmouth
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Ham Court
Chertsey
Weybridge
Surrey
N.B
Heber
Goverk
Richmond
Yorkeshire
Halta Crown
Omar
Earl of Fylingtown
Pina
Tach
William Fenwick
Eigr
Match
Molotto
Dormouse
Tornsmond
Makelefs
Vane
Brimmer
Trumpet
Place
White Turk
Dodsworth
Joan Hartingss
M. B
Chalfont - House
Gerrara’s Cross
Buckinghamshire
Anby Cade
Ics
Yorkfare
Hambleton
John Moore
Sloudh
Newmarket
Beuford
Danby Cane
Old Cade
Soreheels
Mr. Panton
Matchief
Ralph Milbank
Capt. Hartley
Barraham
Make- Ae
Esteem
Engand
Bafto
Eyerly Turk
Little Scar
Brg Mott
Crab
Blacklegs
Snip
Pelham
Old Parcner
Getty
Chen Heber
Warrington
Manchester
Ball- Inn
Wood-Street
Manchestes
Manchehe
Whaley
Atv. Jackson
Henaxy Seachart
St. Paul
Covent Garden
Thomas Darbey
St. Paul's
Sanuel Norman
King-Street
Covene-Garden
Norman
Noriman
Thomas Darrey
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