Free Te Extra? Genoa Grand Council debate
An old news snippet notes Genoa considering freeing its city, with letters from York and Knaresbrough. It reports Earl of Bure’s charity paying debts for two imprisoned men, one French, and sending him home. The piece also covers butter prices, lottery winnings, robberies, a hanging, oats, trade figures, and ships at Portsmouth with arrivals and sailings.
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Genoa
Grand Council
York
Knaresbrough
Earl of Bure
London Chronicle
Brooksbank and
Ruddal
Gardner
Wellclose-square
Prescot-street
Goodmans-fields
Cobler
Tyburn-road
Oxford-market
Holland
Germany
Spain
Hamburgh
Havannah
Christiana
Hay
Newcastle
Portsmouth
Wheeler
Diligence
Stiles
London
Deal
Wind N.N. W
Henrietta
Hill
Lisbon
Elwood
Seville
Knowler
Malaga
Commodity price list and imports from a 19th century catalog
Readable fragments show prices for tea coffee and spices, with values for Congou Souchong Pekoe and other teas. Also listed are dry salts, acids, dyes, gums, sugars, and numerous imported goods with per ton or per C lot figures including Cocoa, Indigo, Gum Arabic, Turpentine, Tar, Pitch, Barilla, and various grains and woods. Names include Jamaica Guadaloupe Martinique and Portuguese Naples references. dates and full context are missing.
Liberty opposition and unformed patriotism in Deptford 1563
The letter condemns a factional opposition as unpatriotic and driven by personal rancor rather than public measure. It argues ministers pursued peace terms and excise for political gain, denounces monopolies on bread, butter, cheese, and other essentials as harmful to the poor, and calls for open market trade and prohibition of hoarding. It ends with a polite sign-off from Deptford, 1563, P N T H.
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Ainsworth
Lowns
Rivers
Mr. Johnson
England
Father
France
Spain
Murton
Buiter
Deptford
T—H
Fragmented Political Rhetoric on Shared Blessings
A fragmentary excerpt urges citizens to discuss political controversies for the good of the country and to distribute blessings more justly among all. It appeals to fellowship and mutual duty as guiding principles for public conduct.
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Bilboa
Swis Leghorn
Venice
Portoss
Deblin
Stilborn
L Ties& Remselves
St. James’s
Mexico
Barilla
Brazil
Pennditto Brizillecro
T& Cr
C. Copperas
Aleppo
Minette
Currans
Jamaica
Guadaloupe
Sago
Gos
Sugar
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Barbadoes
Smyria
Cyprus
Narva
Paternofter
Helignan
Marenburg
Ioning
Podolia
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Hemp Riga
Peter
New-England
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Ndico
Carolina
Verdigrease
Honduras
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Oporto
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Siberia
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Leeward
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Canada
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John Page
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Marth
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Royal Exchange
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Asylum
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Wuard
Pave
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Magdalen
Robert Dingley
John Fielding
Fielding
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Alee Esuits
Robert Walker
Elixir
Pascal
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Horn
Wilson
Kingdom
Veritas
J. Wessels
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