Spalding and Swafpham Races 1764 Norfolk and Lincolnshire
Racing notes from Spalding and Swafpham in 1764 detail purses of fifty pounds for four year olds and six year olds, with entry rules, weights, heats, and stipulations. Cocks fights, comedians, and additional entertainments featured. Entries due at Market Cross. main horses compete for plates, with dragoon fees and per-stake charges outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grounty
Lincoln
Gil
Aml
Benial
Smith
N.B
Norfolk
Chat Las
Chet
Wor Cwo
Morey
Lerwice
Auction of Art of the Stud of Mr Hollmg York August
By order of the assignee a sale by auction will be held at Yorks Coney Street on Wednesday and Thursday the 2nd and 3rd of August at twelve o clock each day. Catalogues available from Mr Henson at the Red Iron Hyde Park Corner London and Mr Tireman York. Viewing Monday the 26th until sale time.
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Henson
York
Coney Street
Joan Hollmg
Carlisle
Cumberland
Hyde Park Corner
the Angel
Holbourn Bridge
London
Tireman
Coney-Screech
Harris’s Coffee House
Danish Islands Trade Decrees Mix With Baltic Moves
News from Copenhagen and Hamburg relay imperial orders on Danish regulation of trade with foreign powers. Provisions grant free ports at St Thomas and St John under passport rules, duties and restrictions apply to imports and exports, penalties target fraud. Separate dispatches report Russian and Polish troop movements near Revel and Riga, with Empress planning extensive deployment to counter threats to Poland. Paris grants twenty year tax exemptions for marshland reclamation, then ecclesiastical dues shift to hay sheaf. Local items recount marriages, shipwrecks, merchant meetings, and sudden deaths in Britain and Dorset.
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Viterdag
Flanders
Copenhagen
Contra&s
Denmark
St. Thomas
John
America
St. Croix
Europe
St. Thomas and
St. John
Hamburg
Ivs
Liannizky
Poland
Paris
Navigation canal plan triggers flood and damages in Meath
A canal project from Boyle to Trim caused a river barrier to flood adjoining meadows. A Meath county meeting at Oldbridge resolved to compensate overflow damages and proceed with the scheme. Also noted are a Limerick marriage of Sir John O Flugherty to Miss Mary Royfe and the death of three aboard a ship bound for Santa Cyd after a sudden wind gust.
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Irel AN OD
Dublin
Faly
Boyle
Trim
Meath
Oldbridge
Limerick
John O'Flugherty
Col. Mackey
Mary Royfe
Thomas Royfe
Nantenan
Sebastian Crone Merchant
Patrick Lawfer
Santa Cyd
Mr. Lawder
Death of Sir William Douglas of Gdenbervie
At Otl and Euinburgh on July 25 Sir William Douglas of Gdenbervie died there on Monday. The vessel Cary of Aberdeen from Greenfall brought a small whale. Fishing had been generally poor due to easterly winds. several ships reported catches, with the Goldes Lion of Laverponl six fish, the Pritaunia of itto four, and the Ray d Beruiny of nabronurgh three. Rumor said the Princess of Wales at Dunbar had four fish.
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Otland
Euinburgh
William Douglas
Gdenbervie
Bay of Aberdeen
Greenfall
Cary
Aberdeen
Greetland
Cains Sparks
Newcastls
Simall
Che
Goldes Lion
Laverponl
Pritaunia
Port News Ships Sailings From Falmouth to Various Ports
A colonial era port record notes arrivals at Falmouth on July 26 to 28 including the Hillbo rough packer Grove from London and Fly Amos from Chichester, with departures to Bremen and St Ives. Additional arrivals include Elizabeth and Mary from Weymouth and Mary and Catharine from Dartmouth, with multiple vessels bound for Newfoundland Rotterdam London and Southhampton. Other ships downbound for North Carolina Copenhagen and Dublin are listed, along with fishbound arrivals in the Downs and numerous traders and merchantmen from Antigua Nevis and Virginia.
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Port News
Falmouth
Hillborough Packer
Grove
London
Fly
Amos
Chichester
Fancy
Bremen
Success
Robinson
St. I Be’s. Profle
Elizabeth
Mary
Harbin
Weymouth
Lamb
Taylor
Newfoundland
Zeldensuit, Smith
Rotterdam
Thomas and Biaiberh
Henning
Southampton
Fols
Dartmouth
Rising Sun
Pebey
Biddeford
Saxey
Aldernes
Suihd
Prosperous
Athy
Ciernt
Cores
Spithead
Harriet
Duncan
North Carolina
Perkins
Curh Carolina
Saifed de Hannah
Brewer
Einbten
Mugford
Certmua
Shannon
Fletcher
Copenhagen
Deal
Hawke
Wiar
Granadoes
Earl of Sandwich
Knowler
Lisbon
Pally
Thomas
H.kifax
Copeland
Worrell
Dublin
Downs
Grant
Carolina
Cours
Kelly
Bolton Packer
Coffin
Povon
Coyoners Goodwill
Baker
Tuthon
Traders
Hope
Antelope
Franklin
Lovely Bersey
Ouchterlony
Atigua
Apollo
Hlaukete
Diamond
Organ
Creighton
Jamal
Union Success
Loveday
Jane
Coulin
Emperor
Wailkinson
Sarah
Stiles
Virgina
Egmour
Mears
China
Pry
Belten
Kite’s
Nevis
Beach
Friends
Merriton
Balogne
Royal visit and court notices from London
Yesterday morning their Majesties, escorted by light horse, visited Lord Boston near Beaconsfield and returned to Richmond. A mourning gentlewoman petitioned the Queen at Chapel Royal and was graciously received. The Marquis of Carnarvon resigned as Lord of the Bedchamber. The Duke of Gordon travels to Scotland with his mother to oversee a large estate. Lords of the Treasury adjourned to August, with others going to the country. An order of the Rolls was read at St. Margaret's, Westminster, for the appearance of John Midge. Reports from Ratiffon mention a memorial to the Dictator of the Ereie granting Protestant districts freedom to practice and build. A Barbadott letter notes astronomers arriving on the Princess Louisa ship of war with Admiral Tyrrel.
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London
Lord Boston
Beaconsfield
Richmond
Chapel Royal
Marquis of Carnarvon
Duke of Gordon
Scotland
Treasury
St. Margaret’s
Westminster
Thomas Ogle
John Midge
Ratifoon
Ereie
Kiurs
Mozingen
Langeauisl
Auen
Barbadott
Tyrrel
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Great Britain
Ike
Clutr Jiey
Coggethall
County of
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Mary Amis
Deceas
Lancaster
Brown
Suocklach
Chester
Whitchurch
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Mer
Chambre
Petton
Shropshire
Francis Chambre
Brick-Court
John Leche
Elm Court
Boch
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Artornies
T. Cunningham
Isa
Gray’s Inn
Law
S. Crowder
Looking-Glass
J. Coore
King’s Arms
Paternotta Row
Oxford
Meifry Fletcher
Hedfen
Cambridge
Great Bicata
Ireland
Dondiction &St
Gray’s Son
New Law Dictionary
Atcic
Gilkrs Jacob
H. Woodfall
W. Strahan
FT. Osborne
C. Hires
L. Hawes
HK. Wood
Thousard
Sefisy
Sueelis
Tos Cneu
Cates
Careca
Che Botton
Che Sreret
Liverfool
John Mears
Dwainer
Aideanor Woodward
Newtan
Robert
Betty
Ney
Madeira
Bristol
Guildhall
Key
Bac
Salisoury
Wheeler
Chetle
Blandford
Dorfer
Bedford
Fey
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