Sunday Market Sheep Sales and London Court Notices
Yesterday sheep were sold at Smithfield Market for a shilling each. Anne Price, a noted Town woman, was committed to Newgate by Sir John Salter for pocket-picking Joseph Haywood. John Auburn, to Bridewell, for robbing lodgings of a sheet and quilt. a dirty, bloody state noted. William Matthews to the Compter for receiving stolen bank notes from Ferrer Lane. Brian, a known thief, to Newgate for pocketing a gentlewoman in Smithfield and selling two gold rings. Elizabeth Cann, deceased July 1722, aged 62. Execution of Richard Richardson, carpenter, condemned for murder at Admiralty Sessions, to hang at Execution Dock then Gravesend. Export details include 100 quarters wheat to France, 69,349 ounces silver, 495 ounces gold to Holland. Reports from Rome, Paris, and Amsterdam on reforms, robberies, and peace talks. Dutch and Russian dispatches discuss strategic moves, credit prices, and ministerial wages at Middlebourg and The Hague.
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Smithfield- Market
Anne Price
Newgate
John Salter
Guildhall
Joseph Haywood
John
Bridewell
Westminster
William Matthews
Compter
Brian
Smithfield
Elizabeth Cann
Fete Richardson
Admiralty
Hartley
High Seas
Gravesend
France
Holland
Excommunication Beliefs Stir in Paris and French Countryside
The text claims Cockneys in Paris and French peasants think an excommunicated person roams streets at midnight. They describe such a soul as bounding like a wolf, with the devil latent, and bearing four beasts skins for unknown purposes.
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Paris
France
Discourse on Education and Religion Conversion at Oratory
Aches in Holy Orders will give a discourse on his education abroad and the motives of his conversion from Popery to Protestantism. A thesis was proposed on Hobbes's State of Nature as a state of war. Orations cover the Chinese Age of the World Cain's Marriage and City 5 and more prints.
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Aches
Hobbes
Cain
Adam
Christ
Gentlemen from St Pauls School to meet at Salutation Tavern
Gentlemen educated at St Pauls School and others are invited to attend a meeting on Wednesday next the 25th instant at Mr Plowmans Salutation Tavern Newgate Street. Tickets are to be taken at the bar on or before the next gathering, which will be Monday the 234th instant at six in the evening.
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St. Paul’s Day
Lost Young Gentleman Missing From Cambridge to Newmarket
On December 25 a 23 year old man, about five eight, fair complexion and smallpox pitting, wearing a dark wig grey coat and black breeches, left Cambridge toward Newmarket and has not been heard from. A five guinea reward is offered for notice leading to his return or safe location with his parents awaiting his arrival.
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Roger
St.Andrew’s
Cambridge
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