Charitable relief and calamities in Bristol and beyond
Reports of broad charity in Bristol and surrounding areas as funds from Fitch Society and donors like the Earl of Roseberry aid the poor, with bread and coal distributed, while rivers overflow and frost loosens trade. Notices of deaths, marriages, ship losses, and local incidents fill a turbulent moral and civic panorama.
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Fitch Society
Earl of Roseberry
Canterbury
M. Robinson
Horton
Thames
Kennett
Bristol
Fan
Twerton
Bath
Rich, Symes
Holt
College Green
Towgood
Richard Towgood
S. T. B. Dean
Ledbury
Herefordshire
Arrivals and Departures From London and Continental Ports
Shipping news lists ships arriving at Motherbank Plymouth Falmouth Dover Bristol and Lloyds ports. Vessels include Diamond from Santa Cruz Peggy from Malaga Mary M Cutchin from Newfoundland New Trimmer from Lisbon Elizabeth and Mary from Philadelphia Nostra Signora de Begona from Bilbao and others sailing with crews bound for St Kitts and Jamaica.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Elizabeth and Mary
Covell
Philadelphia
Nostra Signora de Begona
Musquez
Bilboa
Town shend entertains nobility at Downing Street
Reports from London note Charles Townshend hosting a grand entertainment for nobility and gentry at his Downing Street residence. The Gazetteer adds a report of three deacons ordained by Bishop Moss at St James's Chapel Royal for missions to Indians in America.
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Thony Floyer
Whitchurch
Steyning
Sussex
Fort Barnet
Newgate
Joseph Alexander
a.Black
Green-street
Kentish Town
Bramley
St. George’s Church
Southwark
Mellish Robinson
Cryer
St. Margaret’s Hill
Princes-street
Lothbury
Edward Martin
General Post Office
Dublin
Queen-square
Great Ormond-street
Earl of Harborough
Thomas Bircham
Poultry Compter
Old Gravellane
Edward Jackson
Clerk
Tothill-fields
Bridewell
Gravesend
New River
Sadler's Wells
Ilington Bone-House
Deptford
Defler
Hampstead
London
Tottenham Court Turnpike
Lrouple
Bristol
Sweden
Henry Bate
Chelmsford
St. Peter
Wiganhall
Norwich
Llanvihangell
Radnorshire
Edward Chandler
Teedee
John
Thomas
Combnan
Edward
Paris
Charles Townshend
Downing-street
Moss
St. David's
Chapel Royal
St. James’s
America
Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart
Somerset
Thomas Prowse
House of Commons
Geneva
Endea
Fraudulent George the Second dye in masks uncovered
The passage notes that masks of George the Second dyed to deceive were made in Heney layge and Leadenhall Maskets. They appeared well executed and finely milled yet thicker than true ones, making them heavier and not easily detected as fraud.
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George the
Postscript on Matrimony and Morals for English Colonies
ANGLICUS argues Britain must curb emigration to colonies by boosting domestic population. Proposes repealing adulterous marriage law, tax relief for married workers with six children, tax shifts from labor to others, abolishing large farms, and parceling Crown lands into small farms around eighty pounds a year to keep people at home and support navy and army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening Post
Mgres
America
Floridas
Maria Mony
Prominent Commoners Banned From Peerage Promote Fear
A letter to the printer argues against plans to elevate many rich Commoners to peers. It warns such promotions could concentrate land and power in the Lords, granting them influence over Commons and risking the People's control in Parliament. The author questions the foundation of the report and urges caution.
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London Evening Pot
Meres
Great Britain
House of Lords
House of Commons
Commons of
England
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Seville
Havannah
Vera Cruz
Europe
Madrid
Spain
Mavannah
Esrad
Portmouth
Gibraltar
Spithead
Egmont
Plymouth
Spitalfields
Christ-Church
Surry
Smithfield
Isle of Man
Conduit-street
Compton
Warwickshire
Elizabeth Lady Willoughby de Broke
Richard Lord Willoughby de Broke
Nehemiah Williams
Newport
County of Monmouth
Sir Charles Williams
Langibby’ Castle
Thursday
Maddox-street
Edward Cook
Band of
Gentlemen Pensioners
Friday
Dorchester
Dorset
Margaret Floyer
Dodsley
Pall-Mall
Longman
Paternoster Row
Robison
New Bonds Street
Eddowes
Rome
Nathaniel Hooke
J. and
R. Tonson
G. Hawkins
T Longman
N.B
King’s Bench
Common Pleas
J. Morgan
Inner Temple
H. Woodfall
W. Strahan
Maiesty
P. Uriel
Inner Temple Lane
J. Coote
Parer
Hofter Row
Ireland
Postscript
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