Smuggling Vessel Seized and London News of the Week
Last week a vessel belonging to Queen borough was seized in the River by an officer of the Customs with a cargo of green tea. A woman died in Goodman's Yard in the Minories, leaving a dismal scene for passersby. Reports from Dover, Dunkirk, and Jamaica detail naval and privateering activity, arrests, trials, and stock prices, including Admirals Vernon and Haddock updates, local executions, and a Canterbury murder trial.
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Queenborough
Williams
Customs
Goodman’s Yard
Jaimatea
Kent
Grafton
Spithead
Vernon
Carthagena
Santa Maria
Dunkirk
France
Graveline
England
John Norris
Haddock
Warton
Garland
Tower Hamlets
Willoughby
Towerhill
Johnson
Bishopsgate Street
Ephraim Miller
Bendall
Henry Bendall
Antigua
Great Marlborough Street
Charles Blackwell
William Clayton
St.pes Church
Hampstead
John Jefferies
Holbourn-Row
Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields
Clerkenwell Church
Grub-street
Cambridge
William Gray
William Sutton
Basin
Elizabeth Fisher
William Copper
Dividend Notice for Sun Fire Office Proprietors
Sun Fire Office on July 9 1741 gives notice that a dividend will be paid to proprietors on Thursday the 23rd instant between eleven and two, and will continue weekly on Thursdays during the same hours.
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Sun Fire Office
Parish Star Inn Lewes May 23 1741 Versus Sussex election
Thomas Sergison announces nomination to represent Sussex in Parliament in place of the late Fames Butler Ely. He asks for votes and interests of the gentlemen clergy and freeholders, pledging gratitude for their support.
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Star Inn
Lewes
Sussex
Thhereas
Butler
Ely
Deceas
Thomas Sergison
Tolen
Thomas Luck
Kennethar
Newmarket
Camsbridg
Winterfried
Three Kings
Bury S:. Edmunds
William Rutile
Old Swan Lane
London
Bank of England Cashier John Waite Missing
Notice from June 1 1741 seeking John Waite former Bank of England cashier missing since May 13 and believed to have hidden or stolen East India Bonds valued high rewards offered for his capture or surrender total five hundred pounds with Governor and Company providing payment and secretary David Legros issuing the notice.
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John Waite
Bank of England
East-India
Stamp Office Notice on Unframed Newspapers 1741
The Stamp Office announces in July 1741 that large quantities of unstamped newspapers have harmed revenue. Despite prosecutions of printers and hawkers, the illicit practice continues in London and other parts. Informants may claim reward for naming printers publishers or hackers to convict them.
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Stamp-Office
London
Notice of Lost Warrant related to Kandler in Jamaica
A Jamaica Coffee-House notice seeks any former servants or associates of Joachim Frederick Kandler alias Candler. It states he lived in Jamaica for many years and died there, with a possible year around 1729 to 1929. A reward is offered for information leading to the discovery of altered or misplaced assets and business papers.
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Heccas Cape
Joachim Frederick Kandler
Candler
Germany
Jamaica
Aid
Jamaica Cottee
St. Michael's Alley
Cornlill
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Col. de Veil
Samuel Brady
Portsmouth
Rovbery
Holton
Haveant
Southampton
Boston
New- England
America
Robert Rich
Scotland
Virginia
Charles Town
New England
Brumsdell
Simpson
Virinia
Jomon Sturgis
Edmund Morton
George
Rhode Island
Botton
Havanna
Morton
Martha-Vineyard
Hland
Tilden
Collingwood
Shaw
Argyle
M‘cunn
Glasgow
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
Mine Adventurers
Exchequer
David Legros
L.L
William Midford
Tenpley London
Leonard Martin
Grange-Court
Ciseytreec
Midford
Angel Inn
Gallowtree Gate
Leicester
Wittiam Mason
Wirtiam Mason
Sydenham
George Thornton
Sir John Jacob, Bart
West Wrartin
Linton
Fielding
Gsick
John Marley
Halstead
Essex
Nathaniel Sieffisid
Tackley
Oxford
N. B
Orford
Woodstock
Riffier
Everard Sayer
Mr. Ryves
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