Beginning of Week Governors and Whale Fishery Notes
Robert Macarty sails to assume governorship of Newfoundland. Surrey commissioned peace just passed. East India Company to bid for 13 ships. Obituary for Stephen Holford a leading Orange Merchant. The Revolution arrives in the river with three Greenland whales. Whale fishery details note foreign and domestic roles, machinery innovations, and company profits. South Sea stock and bond prices listed, with market figures for opening.
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Robert Macarty
Romney
Newfoundland
Fort
Garnifor
Placentia
County of
Surrey
East India Company
Botolphlane
Stephen Holford
Revolution
Craycroft
Greenland
South-Sea Company
Elkin
Harrison
Dukes
Bird
Joseph Crowder
John Major
Deptford
South Sea
India
York
Royal Exchange
London
Enghish
Welch
Dicco
Spalding Races Offer Three Purses on August Greens
A notice describes races in Spalding Lincolnshire with purses of fifteen, ten, and twenty pounds for four mile heats. Entries close July 28 at the Marker Cross. Grooms and subscribers must provide half a guinea for each race day and adhere to official rules. An assembly is planned on the first and last race nights.
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Spalding
Spalding Greens
Lincoln
Galloways
Warwick Races Offer Purses on August 14 15 16
The advertisement announces three days of races on a new Warwick course starting Tuesday August 14 with a Fifty Guinea purse for any horse mare or gelding, 12 stone 14 pounds, weight to be carried. Subscriptions, entry rules, and penalties are set. events include a Plate of Test Pounds for Galloways, a Town Plate of Twenty Pounds, and a Ladies’ Assembly each night.
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Warwick
Swan Inn
Purse Races at Shrewsbury course with varied purses
On Tuesday the twenty first of August a purse race for horses at the new Shrewsbury course offers fifty guineas with entry by subscribers and three guineas for non subs, followed by a twenty and fifty guineas slate. Galloways carry nine stone, with rules on entry and payments. detailed weights, entries, and timing are to be observed with cocking at the Red Lyon daily during the races.
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Shrewsbury
Red Lyon
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the Universal Spectator
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Lincolns Inn
S. Nevill
Baily
Ludgate
J. Roberts
Warwick Lane
Felfted School
Essex
Felfted Church
Tho. Bramston
Pho
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Stephen Austen
Bookelles
St. Paul’s Churchyard
Peter Wallis
Fleetstreet
Henry Aichorne
Chelmsford
Sam Patrick
Dublin
S. Patricius
J. Walthoe
R. Wilkin
J. Bonwick
S. Birt
T. Ward
Fhomas Cox
Roya
Charitable Corporation
Great Britain
Tuo. Cox
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