Crimes and Trader News from the City and Abroad
Friday and Saturday sentences in Newgate for robbery murder and theft. A privateer engagement near Jamaica and shipships in Sebastian harbor. Carolina letters warn of French troops and Indians marching. Reports include stock prices and financial notices from London and Bourdeaux with naval and military updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Yates
Neware
Col. de Veil
Feward Warton
Stephan Jones
Newgate
William Swiney
Richard Welch
Edward Hill
Middle-Temple Hall
Edmund Saunders
England
Middle-Temple
Irton
Samuel Page
Newte
Vincent
William Clarke
Edgworth
Middlesex
Townshend Packer
Cowper
London
Sebastian
Jamaica
St. Sebastians
Bourdeaux
Carolina
Oglethorpe
St. Augustine
Warren
la Augustine
Fort St. Augustine
York County Parliamentary Representation Meeting Notice
A general meeting is desired at the George in Coney-Areet York on Wednesday July 23 at Teewelaue o'clock. Gentlemen clergy and freeholders are urged to consider the proper pre fers in the COUNTRY INTEREST to represent this county in the ensuing Parliament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
County of York
the George
Coney-Areet
Tewelaue
Wilts County meeting and Reading race notices
To the Gentletted Clergy and Freeholders of Wilts, a meeting is urged at White Suda on August 6 to select two county representatives for Parliament. A misfiled deed is sought, with rewards for returning it. Also advertised: Reading races August 26 27 28 with purses of fifty guineas and entry details, plus assemblies, and notices about debt settlements and academy education offerings in Reading and Ardington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilts
James Burn
Richard Hulins
Reading
Berks
Mirre
Henry Perrot
Deceas
Oxford
Perkins
Lincoln’s Fou
Freetoan
Girencester
County of
Gloucester
Academy
Charles Street
St. James’s Square
Ardington
Cowphry
Downs
Abingdon
East Lsley
John Smith
Staple’s Inn
Kishysd-Clarks
Gift Crown Inn Severnoakes Offers Noble Guests Careful Lodging
A fragmentary notice describes the Gift Crown at Severnoakes promising the nobility and gentry comfortable accommodations from London via Tu hbridge Wells. It warns hosts to avoid overcharging or guiding guests on the road to other venues, noting dangers of impostors and reputational risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Severnoakes
London
Tuhbridge- Wells
Stolen Goods and Midwifery Adverts from 18th Century Parish Notice
A fragment shows a church burglary in Shotteftrook, Berks with a reward offered for the guilty, along with notices about midwifery training at a Lying-in Infirmary in Fermyn Street, St James, and a list of military deserter notices and a Baileys English Dictionary advertisement. The text preserves names of churchwardens, locations in London and Worcester, and promotional claims for the dictionary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shotteftrook
Berks
William Dopwetry
George Wincut
Fermyn-street
St. James's
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Royal Exchange Assurances
London Ditta
George Gibson
Matinea
Wiliam Robinson
John Jeremiah Temple
Dresden
Saxony
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire
George Sawyer
Brewer-street
Gollen-Square
Ohave
Harris
Philips
Kersey
N. Bailey
A. Ware
C. Rivingtorl
A. ‘Ward
P. Engpton
T. Longman
Connectionagy
Goorery
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