Controversy over Licenses and Moral Remedy Proposals
A detailed query from Middlesex Sessions Committee decries unlicensed liquor trade and the lax enforcement by magistrates. It argues simulative funds shield officials, notes many constables are liquor dealers, and warns broader social ruin unless a remedy is found. Also reports on royal ceremonies, obituaries, deaths, and society news including births and marriages from London and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Thomas Lane
John Miller
Nicholas Feffreys
Jacob Harvey
John Mercer
William Booth
Anthony Chamberlain
Mervy Fetemaker
Middlesez
London Wedding for Earl of Rockingham and Miss Furnese
In London this day the Earl of Rockingham is to wed Miss Furnese at Lord Monson's residence, guardian to the bride. The King’s portrait was prepared during a Hanover journey and will be sent to Prince William. A diamond ring, from the ring finger, was used at court for the Prince of Wales's birthday celebration prior to a ball that ended at three yesterday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia
Duke of Portland
Prince of Wales
Croydon
Surrey
Catharine Sheldon
John Sheldon
William Phipps
Constantine Phipps
Ireland
Anne
James Lare
Anglesea
Catharine
Darnley
James II
Earl of
John Duke
Buckinghamshire
Edmund
Duke of
St. James’s Park
Office of Arms
England
Duke of Richmond
Vere
Sidney Beauclerck
Henry the Seventh
Rochester
Mile-End
Stephen Martin Leake
Royal Navy
Sir John Leake
Trinity House
Tower Hamlets
Ely
Langatter Herald
Eden Hall
Cumberland
Christopher Musgrave
Great Britain
Julia
John Chardin
Kempton Park
Linbury
Middlesex
Barr
Philip Musgrave
Bart
Wallingford
Berks
George Bristow
Brampton Park
Swenow
Joseph Carpenter
His Majesty’s Royal Gardens
Newgate
Jacob Thornhill
South Mims
York
Thomas Rogers
Boroughbriggs
Bulftrode Peachy Knight
Midhurst
Sussex
Dean-street
Soho
Chafforn
Alton
Hants
Justice Reeve
Court of Common-Pleas
Eyre
Deceas
Viscount Glenorchy
Saltash
Cornwall
Howe
Grosvenor Square
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Ambrose Gay
Fanny Brower
Henry Smart
London
Rockingham
Furnese
Lord Monson
Hanover
William
Heffe-Caffe
Buscat
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