Quebec Gazette Letter From Governor Murray Dispatches
A letter to the printer from Quebec notes that reports from Governor Murray show quiet in the province but claims this is misleading. It mentions surprising changes in affairs by October and references a whale fishery on Lake Ontario and salt made from fresh water at Gaspee, with other curiosities from the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray
Ec Meme
Quebec
West Indies
Lake Ontario
Gaspee
Induction and deaths noted in York and vicinity
In York County a clergyman, Rev Mr Scroggs, was inducted to the vicarage of Anne at Toncliffe upon Bethell of Swindon presenting. Deaths include Rev Mr Hewitt Vicar of Thornton and Mrs Barbara Ann Chantrell in York city. Also Mrs Bofville mother to Godfrey Bosville of Gunthwaite. A marriage occurred between Thomas Brook and Miss Richardson. Ship clearances at Newcastle totaled 3767 coastwise. A reported attack on Joseph Holmes near Arthington ended with assailants captured.
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Country News
York
Scroggs
Free Grammar School
Toncliffe
Anne
Christopher Bethell
Swindon
Hewitt
Thornton
Barbara Ann Chantrell
Francis Chantrell
Life-Guards
Bofville
Joseph Holmes
Rhodes
Kirkkill Hall
Arthington
Ouey
Burley
Oiley
Holmes
Premiums for Turnip Slicing Machine and Turnip Cabbage
London premiums established by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures and Commerce offer prizes for a cheap machine to slice turnips for cattle and for cultivating Turnip Cabbage on at least three acres. Awards of twenty and fifteen pounds announced with conditions and deadlines through 1768. Templeman signed as secretary. The notice mentions plans for the king to go to the House of Lords on Tuesday.
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Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Strand
Jan
Society
Per
Templeman
House of Peers
Parliament Elections and Events From the Week
The report notes re-elections for Worcester and Surrey counties, movements of nobles, a Covent Garden comedy The Double Mistake, upheavals over oatmeal prices, ship and military appointments, local marriages, robberies, and royal letters from Warsaw and Paris mentioning Polish coronation, Corsica news, and a Roman history fragment.
Sejanus and a Georgian Political Note from Guildford
An excerpt discusses Sejanus as favourite of Emperor Tiberius and the writer’s political gratitude as a Guildford representative in January 1766. It mentions a bankrupt commission against Henry Bird and Joseph Qualeer of Rotheville, offering Twenty shillings in the pound on debts, with contact through William Watts in Balinghall Street during January 1946.
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Sejanus
Tiberius
Caius
Cesar
Henry Bird
Joseph Qualeer
Rotheville
Stip- Builders and Cofarners
William Watts
Balinghall Street
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