London Cricket Match and Watchmen Regime Noted in 18th Century News
Reports detail a cricket match at the Artillery Ground between Londoners and Chertsey Men with scores of 48 and 97 in alternates and a later 60 for Londoners. Also described are night watch regulations for St Margaret and Westminster parishes, mandating brass portcullis badges and discipline for intoxication, alongside various local incidents, trades, and maritime news from Cadiz to Buenos Ayres.
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Artillery Ground
Chertsey
St. Margaret
John the Evangelist
Westminster
Kentish Town
Theobald
Eafe
Mount Pleasant
Roger Johnson
Newgate
Northumberland Court
Aldgate
Epsom
Edwards
Rygate
Alderswan Perry
Cross-Keys
Bermondsey-street
Southwark
St. Thomas's Hospital
Spain
Holland
St Bartholomew Fair Reduced to Three Days in Smithfield
A 1736 London record shows the Common Council instructing that the St Bartholomew Fair be limited to three days three days only on the eve of St Bartholomew and the following day August 23 24 and 25 with Booths and shops permitted for traders to proceed but no longer. The City Lands Committee is empowered to lease ground in West Smithfield to maximize revenue for the reduced fair and the Lord Mayor is urged to enforce the order and have it printed in daily papers.
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London
D. N. Anne Nume
St. Bartholomew
Smithfield
Opnion
Sc. Bartholomew
West-Smithfield
Demonstrations in Osteology at Hall Amphitheatre
Notice for demonstrations on reduction of fractures and dislocations with bandages at Six o'clock evenings in the Amphitheatre on multiple days near London. A bay mare missing from Kentish Town near London is offered for a Guinea reward to bring to Mr White or Mr Powell in Silver Street Golden Square.
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Mr. White
London
Richard Powell
Carpenter
Silver-street
Golden-square
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Banstead
John Barnard
Daniel Lambert
Thomas Thomas
Christopher Buckle
Allen Smith
Theodore Jacobson
Cadiz
N.S
Buenos Ayres
Rio de Janeiro
Nova Colonia
Old Spain
Portugal
Europe
Lisbon
Rio
Hill
South Sea Company
San Bruno
Petache N. & de la Ensigna
Deal
Newecastle
Pearl
Spithead
Fowell
France
Z&c
Italy
Milan
Sardinia
Marshal Noailles
Paris
South Sea
Welch
Prem
India
Emperor's Loan
St. Clement's Church
Strand
James Hopkins
Lombard-street
Kensington
Chelsea
Fulham
Middlesex
Kensington Square