Vestries and Victories Mark a Sussex and London Week
The report chronicles appointments at St John’s College and church livings, a dispensation for a vicarage and a rectorate, a marriage of Sir Francis Skipworth to Miss Cartwright, the death of Lady Wyvill and others, plus a murder charge against Humphrey Rammington. It also notes naval orders for Dr. James Lidderdale, a legal verdict against Abraham de Medina, and dispatches from Bari and Paris detailing military and diplomatic moves including Bitonto, Montemar, Berwick’s funeral arrangements, and Coigny’s victory, with Radnor poll irregularities later highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Stockton
William Hay
Wiliam Perkins
St. John’s College
Merchant-Taylors Hall
England
William Moggridge
Sidney-Sussex College
University of Cambridge
Charles Lord
Bristol
Minehead
Sussex
Bath and Wells
Porlock
Francis Skipworth
Warwickshire
Miss Cartwright
Thomas Cartwright
Aynho
Northampton
Wyvill
Marmaduke Wyvill
Lord Lovell
St. Paul’s Chain
Doctors-Commons
Petty-France
Westminster
John Stokes
Brampton
Darbyshire
James Lidderdale
Great Britain
Britannia
Downs
Hardwick
Guildhall
Abraham de Medina
Peter Sojourne
Humphrey Rammington
Rammington
William Well
Bari
Naples
Montemar
Bellomonte
Bitonte
Calabria
Paris
Duke of Berwick
Philipsoourg
Val de Grace
Neuberg
James
Duke of
Berwick
Marshal de Villars
Marshal
France
Buckingam
Diseases and Casualties This Week Report
Listing weekly disease tallies with numbers for consumption fever smallpox and other ailments, alongside casualty figures including murders accidents and executions. Demographics show males 155 females 153 total 308 buried 250 males 269 females and 510 total. Financial items note South Sea stock bank circulations and various annuities and bonds with mixed premiums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christer
South Sea Company Transfer and Dividend Notice
South Sea House announces that transfer books for the New South Sea Annuities will be closed on June 13 and reopen on July 29. Warrants for half year interest are payable July 22 to 25. Transfer books for trading stock close June 1 and reopen August 5, with the dividend for the fair due August 12 and 12? August 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South-Sea House
South-Sea Company
South Sea
Public Debt Claim Notice at Shroton and Lincoln's Inn
A notice to any person with a lawful demand against George Pity of Shroton Esq for any simple debt due before March 2 1728. Claims must be presented to William James of Shroton or Robert Ackinson of Lincoln's Inn for payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Pity of
Shroton
William James
Robert Ackinson
Lincoln’sni
Purse Race at Parfly Common Essex
On Parfly Common in High Ongar Essex a purse of twenty guineas will be run for by any horse mare or gelding carrying ten stone weight in three heats. Entrance one guinea for contributors two for non contributors. Race set for Thursday July 27 between 5 and 6 PM. Participants must be within half a mile of the common and those having won over forty guineas are ineligible. Articles viewable at the entrance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parfly-Wood Common
High Ongar
Essex
Gilbert Forster
Parfly- Common
Blandford
Dorsetshire
N. B
Mace
Stratford Races Purse and Town Purse with Entry Rules
In Shottery Meadow near Stratford upon Avon Warwick, on Tuesday the 23d of July a purse of thirty guineas for mare or gelding, weight 11 stone 14 pounds, includes bridle and saddle. Entries at the White Lyon six days prior, seven days prior kept in Stratford borough, nonsubscribers pay three guineas. On Wednesday the 29th a twenty guinea purse for horse, mare, or gelding weight ten stone, entries at Unicorn five days prior. All horses kept at subscribed pubs. ten shillings to town purse, ball for ladies each night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shottery Meadow
Stratford Upon Avon
Warwick
Amy Horfe
Horfe
Scratford
White Lyon
Stratford
Sach
Sinich
Galloway Plate Races at Blandford Course in Dorsetshire
The notice lists three race days, Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday, for purses of thirty ten and twenty guineas with horses mares or geldings, weights and entrance rules, and stipulates entries at Blandford with conditions on prizes, shares of entrance money, and the running of heats. It calls for at least three horses per plate and final adjudication by the majority of subscribers present.
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Falmouth
Arabella Dunch
Earl of Waldégrave
Arriv
Calais
Count Coigny
Colorno
Parmezan
I.t
Jo¢ph Denier
Lebane
Radnor
Humphrey
Vaughan
Court of King’s Bench In
Aid
Trinity
London
Middlesex
Court of Common Pleas
Ondon
Nooda
New South
Bths
Bank
India
Mullion Bank
York Buildings
Royal Exchange
Welch
Epsom
Surrey
Assembly House
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