Canterbury Hops and Duties Stir Calls for Parliament
A London report notes hops duties for 1773 at 45847.18s.10d and prices now falling from 41 Jos. per hundred. Despite large hops stocks, barley and malt prices rise. A Proposals urges Parliament to allow import when hops exceed 31s. per hundred to curb porter costs and aid workers.
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Salisoury
Sir Alexander Powell
Corsley
Shearman
Knight
Norton
Canterbury
Norwich
London
Shipping news update from Downs and ports at year start
The report lists ships that came down and sailed from the Downs including the Morse East Indiaman and others bound for Alicant Tobago Tortola Barcelona St Kits Oporto Virginia Georgia and Maryland. Several vessels remained in the Downs, with wind at N W Deal. Arrivals include Galway Milland Ali cant Appledore Portsmouth Dover Rhode Island and Dunkirk ports with multiple vessels listed and routes to Newfoundland Corunna Jamaica Dominica Batavia and Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny
Forster
Alicant
Ann
Catherine
Peters
Tobago
Anderton
Tortola
Gibbons
Coar
Barcelona
Douglass
Ashington
St. Kits
Welles
Miller
Oporto
Valliant
Virginia
Smith
Georgia
Downs
East Indies
Batavia
Sophia
Richardson
Maryland
Swift
Lanne
N. N. W. Deal
Susannah
Dobson
Cadiz
Sterling
Boyd
Berwick
Brillant
Lante
N. W. Deal
Martha
M‘inioffs
Judith Kelvina
Breet
Jamaica
Nancy
Ogilvie
Carthagena
Dominica
Rowley
India
Man
East-Indies
Galway
Milland
Israel
London
Samuel and
Dove
Rowles
Newfoundland
Appledore
Admiral Saunders
Day
Portsmouth
Mary, Killikelly
Waterford
Swallow
Trotter
Whiteheaven
Dover
Success
Henderson
Hkelfast
Polly, King
Rhode Island
Trifram
Shand
Charlotte
Rogers
Dunkirk
Robert and Elizabeth
Pearcy
Petersburgh
Boston Packet
Lytle
Boston
Fonesco
Barker
Meeting in Faneuil Hall condemns East India tea duty
Boston residents gathered led by John Hancock to denounce the tea tax and nonpayment, vowing to block tea sales from the East India Company. Committees planned to urge Richard Clarke and Thomas Hutchinson to resign filings, while London letters report Dublin staff reforms and Irish politics alongside market notices and local marriages and deaths.
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London
Boston
New-England
Faneuilhall
John Hancock
Bhosen
East- India Company
America
Treasury
Philadelphia
East India Company
East-India Company
Richard Clark
Son
Bejamin Fanewil
Milton
Thomas
Elitha Hutchinson
Clarke
Town Meeting Adopts Harsh Stand Over Tea References
Citizens read letters from Richard Clarke and son Benj Faneuil and Joshua Winslow and from Thomas Hutchinson. The assembly votes the letters unsatisfactory and adjourns, then reconvenes to confront the tea issue and the town’s request. The meeting ends with a dissolution after condemning the correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Clarke and Son
Benj. Faneuil
Joshua Winslow
Eigg
John Hancock
London Grimweite News Roundup Dated Dec 29
Bar on Ribbing death noted and Swedish minister predecessor deaths. Health gloom with a putrid fever ravaging London youths. Queen appoints Earl of Guildford Treasurer and Receiver General succeeding Andrew Stone Lily. Paul Amfinck named Hanse Towns agent for Great Britain per Nordic city commissions. Bankruptcy notices list Mary Stanford and others with surrender dates in Liverpool and London. Distinct court notices include guildhall surrenders and certs planted for tradespeople and jewelers in St George's Wapping.
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Petersoourg
Baron Ribbing
Eason
Duke of Courland
Queens Palace
St. James's Park
Earl of Guildford
Andrew Stone
Lily
St. James’s
Paul Amfinck
London
Great Britain
Amfinck
Lubeck
Bremen
Hamburch
Mary Stanford
Liverpool
Iipmner
the Golden
Talbot
Water-street
Thomas Butler
James Butler
Laureate-Poultney-lane
Guildhall
James Hunter
Pudding-lane
Wm. Ogle
Westminster
Scrivener
Samuel Gibson
William Gibsons
Bristol
Linen-Drapers and Partners
Richard Swanwick
Pantomime Drama Si pds Harlequin Gambols at Covent Garden
Theatrical Intelligence notes the first Covent Garden performance of a new pantomime piece called the Si pds or Harlequin's Gambols. It blends scenery by Dall and Richards with Servandoni’s last scene, music by A Fisher, and features recitatives songs and chorus, aiming for opera length and strong musical spectacle.
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Covent Garden Theatre
Harlequin
Servandoni
A. Fisher
Mail robbery at Stamford area offers £200 reward
Postal robbery near Catterton by same culprit as previous raid. Description given of a middle aged man about five feet tall with pale complexion and blue coat. Reward of £200 offered by Postmaster General for apprehension and conviction. pardons for informants upon conviction.
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Genefal
Fan
PE Pot
London
Eelock
Catterton
Stamford
Olige
Lincoln
Hut
Grantham
Wewcastle
Belyford
Morpeth
Alnwick
Berwick
Caxon
Anthony ‘Todd
Herefordshire and Norfolk Estates to be Sold by Decree
Peremptory sale by decree of the High Court of Chancery at Symond's Inn London on Thursday February 3, in several lots. Properties include Herefordshire Sir John Morgan estates with Chantton Fara and Hinton Farm assets, Dures Wood Farm, Chaniton Mills, and timber valued at substantial sums. In Norfolk, Watlington lands with multiple cottages, messuages, and pastures let to tenants at various annual rents, totaling several parcels and valuations.
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House of Commons of Ireland
Barry
Col. Blaquiere
Dublin
Corke
Munster
Willoughby Lightburne
Edward Newenham
Phoenix Park
Edward
Pais
Count de Guignes
D’aigauillon
Candia
Stamford
Doncaster
York
Ferrybridge
Grantham
Eaton
Hicks’s Hall
Powell
Hev
Gendon
Maidenhead Bridge
Herefordshire
Nuxfolk
High Cours of Chancery
John Browning
Tus Chambers
Symond’s Inn
Chancery-laney London
Whursday
Sir John Mor
Gan
Kinnersley
Hereford
Barts
Ian
Chanstone
Walterstone
Golden Valley
Messing
Chantton Fara
Candlemas
Alfo Chaniton Mills
Pontapena
Sol
Hinton Farm
Peterchurch
Dures Wood Farmi
Perann
Geo. Heathcote
Norfolk
Watlington
Wm. Hedson
Seaman's Useful Friend and Pleasant Companion
A late 18th century maritime guide explains easy methods for finding celestial positions and compass variation using a wooden ditch compass. It teaches seamen to determine latitude, weather conditions, and safe courses from the English Channel to the western Atlantic, with instructions tied to Hadley's Quadrant and practical navigation aids. It lists multiple London and provincial sellers and prices at 6d.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eglish
Eitheer
Trom
Spain
Portugal
Bay of Biresy
P. Hunphry
Chichesters
Richeardson and Urquhart
Royal Exchanzey
Newsberg
J. Fuller
Ave-Viar
Mr. Cole
Mathematical Instrument-Maker
Fleet Street
London
M. Allison
Falmouth
Score
Exester
Lambert
Lewes
J. Linden
Soathampton
Mreschower
G Fport
Harding
Portmouth
T.venice
Arondell
Hadtev
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John Green
Green
Stepney Fields
New Prison
Clerkenwell Bridewell
Corn Exchange
Tho. Temple
Walworth
Molly Kuipe
Henry Jenkins
Alice Trelawney Cock
S. Kentith
Laws
Robert Burgess
Charles Street
Berkeley Square
Mills Eliz. Harvey
Curzon Street
Mayfair
Belfast
Geo. Downing
Mills Downing
John Downing
Rowe’s Gifty
Abraham Woodmafs
Hoxtin
Corfcombe
Dorfershire
Hollis
Argyle-street
Mayhew
Ince
Soho
Kensingtoty
Maite
Gawler
Effix
Streecs
Richard Woodhoutey Gridewell
Lacon Lambe
Attarney
Roya
Elizalith Stevens
Scacfonerts Court
Ludgate-ftrest
Taplor
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