Proposal to reform poor rates and license taxes in parishes
AGRICOLA proposes reducing burdensome taxes and equalizing poor rates across parishes. He argues that intoxication and idleness drive poverty, urging higher licence prices to fund government costs and reduce disorder. He favors limiting settlements to hundred or county, creating workhouses, and taxing parishes equally to ease farmer burdens. He concludes by asking for publication in the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fenewere
Pitts
Agricola
Public papers report French gift of twenty thousand pounds
A fragment claims a twenty thousand pound plate present from the French Court to a great person in the kingdom. The note questions the veracity and asks for confirmation of the recipient and the occasion. The language is irregular and contains obscured names and phrases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Gersou
Fotlige
Jeffries
Williams
Call to end beaver and fur exports to Brance and Helland
A letter urges a total stop to exporting American beaver and furs to France and Holland to aid domestic hat makers, prevent French competition, and provide employment for workers now without bread. The signer, A Worp to the Wisk, appeals for protective measures to boost American manufacture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brance
Helland
Encouragement for the London Evening Post Prompts Thanks
The paper thanks the public for support amid prosecutions and pledges to stay useful and entertaining. Readers are urged to send orders to news carriers or the printer, with promises to correct any mistakes. Advertisements and letters for the West End are taken by Mr. Almon opposite Burlington House in Piccadilly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening Post
Mr. Almon
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Portrait of Prince Christian presented to Princess Matilda
London reports a portrait of Prince Christian of Denmark presented to Princess Matilda. Florence letters note Lord Beauchamp, son of the Earl of Hertford, staying briefly before heading to Rome. A general fleet reassessment and a Treasury board meeting discussed significant petitions and duties on tar from Russia and the Baltic to aid British American colonial manufacture. Hamburgh dispatches say Joseph Ith, governor of the Merchant Adventurers, plans inland British trade with Poland and Prussia for potential advantage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Prince Christian of
Denmark
Matilda
Florence
Lord Beauchamp
Earl of Hertford
Rome
Board of Treasury
Whitehall
Russia
Baltic
America
Hamburgh
Joseph Ith
Company of Merchant Adventurers
Poland
Prussia
World News and Trade Notices From London and Dockside
A London dispatch reports political estimates from stockshots on Guinea and Jamaica trade shifts, notes a plan to regulate Royal Bank of Scotland currency, and cites Fleet Street paving contracts. It records losses and arrests such as a Hoxton baker drowning, seizures yielding prize money, and varied imports and exports including butter hides sugar and iron ordnance. The item lists ships entering and leaving, and ends with theatre playhouse notices at Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Goodrick
Stockholm
Guinea
Jamaica
South America
Havannah
Foundling Hospital
Westminster
Royal Bank of Scotland
Thomas Barstow
Leeds
Thomas Atkinson
Islingtown
Robins
East India House
Brady
Hoxton
St. Paul’s
Liverpool
Waterford
Londonderry
Drogheda
Newry
Eagle
Guppy
Calais
Bloom
Wells
Expérience
Francis
Jemina
Edmunds
London
Hull
Guadalupe
Quebec
Holland
Bilboa
India
France
North America
West Indies
Italy
Deal
Grand Duke
Brewer
Maria
Cornish
Barbadoes
Tryal
Wilkinson
Wind N. N. W
Fragmentary OCR Stock and Notice Items
scattered fragments describe bonds bills and notices with numeric codes and partial place references. no coherent event or subject clear. remaining readable items show ledger like entries and identity fragments amid garbled text and numbers.
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London Evening
Wilten
Jack Ketch
North
Drury - Lane
Grendler
St. James’s
Whitechapel
Loniddn-Biidgé
Tomosrow
C. Consol
Ct. Navy
Disa
Navy
Charles Townhend
W. Nicoll
Charles Townshend
Robert Whytt
M.D. F
Alar
Fty
Royal College Af Physicians
Edinburgh
Ts Becker
P. A. de Honds
Strand
Balfour
Eun
John Quincy
T. Poneman
Patermofts Row
San Storius
Quincy
Turlington
Corake
Birchin-Lane
Royal Exchange
Thomas Peirce
Bullicer Square
Mies
J. Peirce
Whaleft and Retail
Howe Weir
Fenchurch Street
Spencer
Berkeley’ Square
David Bernham
Martin’s Lane
Hooper
New Church
The
Wilkie
G Paul’s
Carter
Mulliney
Star-Alley
Maf
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