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London Evening Post in London, Middlesex

31 Jul 1756

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London Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jul 31, 1756

Page

4

A Penny in a Peck Loaf and Seamen at Greenland Dock

A reader notes bread price manipulations to keep costs up until harvest, urging authorities to intervene. Meanwhile about 40 Greenland sailors faced two Royal Navy lieutenants attempting to press them. a clash ensued, wounding several before officials ordered withdrawal. The report also records church appointments, deaths, a marriage, medical case notes for Dr James's Powder, bankrupts, and price lists from the Corn Exchange.

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Barmer Greenland Royal Navy Philip Pyle North Lynn St. Edmund Norfolk John Peele Edmund Nelson John Jeffrys Christ Church College, Oxford Pricess Dowager of Wales St. Nicholas London Berk-Hempisted James Cope Downton William Burton Yarmouth Fennight Richard Roderick Ely Magdalen College Cambridge Royal and Antiquarian Societies Charles Roderick That College Nesterday Mr. Lewis His Majesty’s Palace Whitehall Edward Byng Efy Viscount Torrington Eaton School Col. Byng Margery Watkins Kilpeck Herefordshire Mary Minton James John Parry
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Swedens and French Fleet movements near Beachy Head

An August Portsmouth letter reports a Swedish ship sighting nine French battleships and several frigates off Beachy Head under Admiral, with an oath-confirmed account to the Lords of the Admiralty. Osborne orders readiness at Spithead, ships and forts primed. Elizabeth Spy and Gibraltar patrol. a French prize is taken near Torbay. Marseilles letters mention a Puget camp and 30,000 troops, plus Villafranca access for the Mediterranean fleet. Stockholm letters note sentence and confiscation for Count Brahe and Baron Horn. Local race results at Blandford include Chestnut Horse Metcastle Fack winning the Five Years Old Plate. A Oxford rector appointment and a Tunbridge Wells lace seizure are noted, along with a fire at a Strand dwelling.

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Portsmouth Spithead Beachy Head Osborne Admiralty Elizabeth Gibraltar Torbay Boscawen Marseilles Puget Toulon Brignole Provence Sardinia Mediterranean Villafranca Dunkirk Stockholm Count Brahe Baron Horn Blandford Mr. Rodgers Metcastle Fack Babraham Lord Craven Barefootball Mr. Compton Lord Eglingtoun Lordship Virtuous Mr. Swymmer Diana Cox New College Carfax Oxford West-Buckland Devon Francis Bailet Thiddy Cornwall Eigworth Tunbridge-Wells Jarret Customs Clarke Denmark Court Strand
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