Noble entertainments and city crime among 18th century news
London reports include the Duke of York deer hunting at Colorno park and a grand palace supper, a royal birthday for Princess Amelia, court banquets, and a King’s portrait gift. Also noted are robberies, drunken mobs, trials at the Old Bailey, ship movements, a Westminster school appointment, and numerous deaths and church notices from May through June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Parma
Duke of York
Colorno-park
Palace
Theare
Amelia
St. James's
Cavendish Square
Prince of Wales
Ornabrug
Sykes
Duke of Norfolk
Worksop
Nottinghamshire
Richard Terrick
Peterborough
Osbalderton
Smith
Westminster School
Hinchliffe
Henriques
Benjamin Menaes de Costa
Grampus
Capt. Fortune
Pensacola
Deptford
Gravesend
Johnstone
Alexander Haye
Broadstreet
Dartmouth
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Chelsea
England
Hospital Notice for Exposed and Deferted Children
Notice from the hospital governing body states that all unclaimed children will be delivered to rightful claimants at no charge if claimants prove their rights by giving the date of arrival, any death marks, or a hospital receipt. The General Committee meets Wednesdays at noon. Also a note urges a missing young gentleman from Highgate to return or contact his friends, and directs heirs of Thomas Dunfter or Lord Cavendish’s regiment who died in Havana to send accounts of their demands to Mrs. Mary Harmer, in Rotherham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster Abbey
Catharine Stopes
William Neille
Taft
Guildford
Surry
Robert Nath
Fagg
Nath
Jamaica
Hanover Packet
John Vern
Westmoreland
Grace Wenley
Paul George
Gravesend
Duke of Marlborough
Queen Anne
Hornydown
Robert Mattison
Apollo
Kensington
Mompetson
John Moimpetson
Admiral Williams
Gale
Great St. Helen’s
St. Bartholomew’s
Elizabeth Wright
Ludgate-street
Greenwich
Mackarel
Portsmouth
London
Rochfort
Essex
Kent
Eaglesham Creek
Wettminster
Marybone Turnpike
Kas Aneerday
Highgate
Thomas Dunfter i Hamer
Its Majesty
Frederick Cavendith
Havannah
Freehold Estate Near Shewbury Berks For Sale
To be sold is a freehold estate within a mile of Shewbury Berks consisting of about eighty acres of arable meadow and pasture land enclosed and lying together with a right of an exclusive common without sting. It includes a good farmhouse barn stables and other conveniences all in repair inquire of Mr Grubb attorney in the Old Jewry or Mr James Elgar of Elcor near Newbury who has the plan the estate is capable of improvements and lies in a delightful spot offering a spacious prospect for a gentleman seeking a seat with ample land and a fine running stream on the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shewbury
Berks
Grubb
Old Jewry
James Elgar
Elcor
Newbury
Berkshire
A Plea for Accountability of a Vice-Roy in the Realm
In a Letter to the London Evening Post the author argues that no bad measures should be laid at the King’s door but upon ministers. A powerful favourite as de facto ruler could evade justice, so the people must have a remedy to reach such an offender. The piece warns of abuses like bribery, jury packing, and oppressive taxation, urging constitutional safeguards and public recourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Down Ard
Agutrs
London Evening Post
Newtons Third Law Confusion Sparks Letters to Bamfield
A heated exchange in the Monruly Review extracts Mr Bamfield’s readers questioning Sir Isaac Newtons Third Law. The writer probes motion as passion and asks for a plain explanation of action and reaction, criticizing metaphysical jargon and urging clarity from the critics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bamfield
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac
Bamfield
Also Mentioned on This Page
Southwark
Margaret Current
Dorothy Greme
Newgate
Parker
William Carey
Hicks’s Hall
Carey
John Fielding
John Turtle
Joseph Chambers
Nicholas M‘cabe
Patrick Smith
M‘cabe
Montague House
John Lyon
Ann Roberts
Whitechapel
Jane
T. Collingwood
Sec. N.B
Henry RaMsam Ges
St. Ann Black-fryers
Stephens
Chancery Lane
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