Desperate 1730 Custody Case and Derby’s Generous Gift Explored
In 1730 a man was ordered to pay 231 per year for maintenance of a child said to be his wife's born to a merchant, with a four year and three quarter period covered. The piece also notes the Earl of Derby gifting his Macclesfield estate to cousin Sir Edward Stanley, and recounts a Cromwell era letter of defiance and other European Political and military tidings and court happenings from Rome to Lisbon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of
Derby
Macclesfield
Cheshire
Sir Edward Stanley
Bart
County of
Lancaster
Oliver Cromwel
Isle of
Afi
Stanley
Quarterly Trustees Meeting for Fire Loss Claims London
The General Quarterly Meeting of the Trustees will be held at their Office behind the Royal Exchange, London, on Wednesday next at ten in the forenoon. All persons with fire losses are urged to present claims for satisfaction. Office hours also at Graig's Court, Charing-Cross, for insuring houses goods and merchandise from fire loss across Great Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruchfal
Eugene
Ulm
Bohemia
Tirolete
Italy
Bavaria
Silesia
Poland
Saxony
Upper Rhine
Strasburg
d’Uhlfeldt
Vienna
Rome
Hanover
N.S
Herenhausen
Prince William of Heffe- Caffel
Lisbon
O.S
Norris
Portugal
Balchen
Haddock
England
John Norris
Cunningham
Bootle
Nile
Jamaica
Spanish West-Indies
Royal Exchange
London
Graig’s Court
Charing-Cross
Great Britain
Exchange-Alley
Richard and
Thomas Woodward
Jesaison Coffee
Baker’s
James Hopkins
Lombard-street
Pss
Kensington
Chelsea
Fulham
Middlesex
Notices and Auctions Across London and Middlesex
Fragmentary notices list property sales and auctions in London and Middlesex, including a ten o'clock meeting at Fulham for road repair act trustees, a found purse offer for reward, a Salmon purchase proposal at Guildhall Ireland chamber, and a Chancery decree sale of Leppington and Barthrope estates in York with particulars via the master’s office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Gazette
Devonshire-street
Red-Lion Square
London
Ulster
Ireland
Guildhall
Also Mentioned on This Page
House of Bourbon
Istria
Naples
Spain
France
Chevalier d’Orleans
Adriatick
Modena
Mirandola
Konigsegg
Toscanini
Robert Morpeth
Robert Kiffes
Mr. Stamper
Kingsland
Edward Ormsby
Richard Lilly
Macray
Dr. Lancaster
Clark
King’s Road
Coshing
Old Bailey
Newg.t
Tyburn
South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exch. Assurance
London Assurance
York
Welch
Ditto
High Court of Chancery
Thomas Bennett
Castle-yardy Helbourn
Ape
Leppington and
Barthrope
County of York
William Spelman
Deceas
Elizabeth
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