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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 30, 1734
Page
2
An account from Villegouge in Bousdeaux reports the death of the famous John Pringiteau in his 103rd year. He reportedly never suffered illness in his life until shortly before his death, and his long life comes as a notable tale from the area. A present valued between 20 and 30,000 Livres is noted in relation to Picure of lick-King.
London reports detail Sir John Norris's squadron preparing for the Westward voyage. The Indian King and chiefs were to be brought to Kensington for audience, with the King funding a weekly table allowance. Royal hunting at Richmond New Park is noted, with the King ordering the dogs to be rested after a dead horse incident. Amid broader war dispatches, alliances shift across Europe, with French fleets near Cadiz, Russian detentions tied to reprisals, and Imperial forces maneuvering in Mirandola and along the Rhine. The Fishmongers Company prepares to receive Sir Edward Bellamy in Thames Street.
The entry covers Aldermen elections and sheriffs for the City of London and Middlesex, new board work on St James's Mall, hospital steward election results at St Thomas's, and royal appointments. It reports deaths and races at Lympsfield and Oxford, plus affixes at Northampton and Hertford with executions and transportation outcomes. It ends with a mortality and burials tally for the week and notes ships captured by the Spaniards.
The item lists a series of stock prices and bond names such as South Sea Stock at 80, New South Sea Annuity at 103, Bank 139, Three per Cent at 93, Million Bank at 107.5, African 20, Royal Ex change Assurance 95.5, London Assurance 12, English Copper 1.155, Welch ditto 11.10, South Sea Bonds 21.15, India ditto 21.19, and various premiums and years purchases.
A notice describes racing events at Warwick with purses of fifty guineas and ten and twenty pound subscriptions. Races are for horses mares or geldings of various weights and ages, with entries due day of running at the White Swan Inn. No horse that won a Royal Plate may enter. late entries pay double.
Auction notice for Weston Bamfield Farm in Somerset with mansion, gardens, stables, cyder house, 140 acres, 39 acres of orchard, plus freehold estates Waiseheads Stackwoods Ott Lands and Shorinae areas in nearby parishes. Legal counsel in London advertises sale from Inner Temple Lane.
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