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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 31, 1765
Page
2
The mempens of the Jockey Club are asked to pay subscriptions to the Jockey Club Plates for 1765. Payments may be made to Mr. Finmors at the Star and Garter in Pall Mall or to William Tuceing at Newmarket, before the 20th of March next.
A potential heir or kin of John Grey, born near Doncaster in Yorkshire, who usually worked as a gentleman's groom and at times as a horse dealer, plans to apply for opportunities. Mr. Bever at his repository in St. Mary's Lane may have information beneficial to him. Grey reportedly was about sixty when he died on a journey home from Arabia with horses.
By order of the affinances of Meff Masters and Baby ironmongers on St Margaret s Hill Southwark beginning of this month the first of genuine stock in trade and fixtures for sale on premises items include bar iron brass and iron locks hinges nails and various treamongery goods farther particulars to be inforced on the day s sale in this and other papers.
Friday next at the Bull's Head Inn Beaconsfield a feasture estate comprising six brick dwellings or tenements left to several trustees. Property yields 13 pounds per year and each lot conveys a parliamentary vote for the county. Further particulars at the Bull's Head and from Mr Holford brokers in Fleet Street, London.
A published appeal from T Parsons of Maiden Lane Covent Garden describes a sick, aged couple and their daughter living in destitution. The message urges charitable relief from readers, naming local donors in Great St Andrews Street Seven Dials Great Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields and Covent Garden, with a postscript noting the news of a Baltimore shipwreck and local weather incidents.
A fragment from a 18th century dispatch notes ongoing violence in Persia under rebel factions challenging Kerim Kani, fears over his death, and delays in returning Catholic and Armenian merchants. Lisbon reports the arrest of Paymaster-General Bernardin da Costa and his imprisonment by a junta. A French note recounts a Swiss cantonal rupture with the King of the Helvetic realm and orders Swiss troops to withdraw.
The Industry Brig of this port, with master Chris Creagh aboard, bound for Nantes, was driven onto a rock by a strong current near Passage after striking, but was freed and run ashore to beach to unload cargo for repairs. A pilot was aboard during the incident.
Port towns report arrivals from London and Toptham including George Smith Traveller Bowen Ann Barker Isabella Sweetland Sally due from Fisnera and Bourdeaug dispatch for Barbadoes Elizabeth for Plymouth Friends Goodwill Samuel for London Henry and Joseph for Weymouth Southampton Neptune King from Dartmouth Cardigan Langer Prosperous from London speeds back Speedwell for London Phoenix for Dublin Jersey packer Guillet for Jersey Winds from the Downs active Cruizer sloop and East-India yachts in Deal and Fox 31 with wind N W
Dispatches were sent to the Earl of Hertford in Paris. The Council aimed to appoint sheriffs for the year. Judges prepared for the ensuing assizes across circuits. Lord George Lennox returned from Privy Gardens. Spain’s ransom terms for the Manillas remained undecided. Carthagena ships to reinforce the Philippines. Venice privateers sold for guarda costas in the Adriatic. A plan to bar foreigners from Shetland herring fishery was reported. An air jacket invention was tested in a London lab and at sea with positive results. His Majesty’s frigates Jane Boreas Zephyr sailed or returned to Spithead for harbor and platform maneuvers.
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