Behr named Prime Minister of Hanover Electorate
London notices dated June 14 report His Majesty appointing His Excellency Baron Behr as Prime Minister of the Electorate of Hanover, replacing the late Baron de Hake. Sept Cornwall elected MP for Montgomery town in place of Richard Clive. Court notes Common Council actions, embankment views, and local appointments. A Hyde Park Serpentine incident, King Street fire, race results, and multiple clergy livings announced. A letter laments public vice, praises Wilkes, praises education, and calls for reform, dated June 7, 1771.
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Baron Behr
Hanover
Baron de Hake
Cornwall
Royal Navy
Montgomery Town
Richard Clive
Life Guards
Granadiers
Blackheath
Court of Common Council
Black Friars Bridge
Mylne
Bellas
Derham Yard
John Kirkman
Richard Oliver
Wilkes
Bull
Court of Common Pleas
Sclater
St. Marylebone
Hyde Park
Knightsbridge
Mr. Gore
King-street
Golden Square
Knavesmire
Col
Jolliff
Dodsworth
Bethell Robinson
Wigins
Theophilus Meredith
William Meredith
Colin Milne
North Chapel
Sussex
St. James’s
Archibald Douglass
Lucy Graham
Duke of Montrose
Duke of ‘Rutland
Greenwich
James Meriton
His Majesty’s Artillery
St. John’s Square
Clerkenwell
Steade
Sheffield
Yorkshire
Ham
Kingston Upon Thames
John Lowder
Northumberland
Horne
Death of Lord Strange and parish nominations in Leeds
A letter from this town recounts the death of Lord Strange from apoplexy after a card game with the Duke and Duchess of Kingston and Colonel Somerville at Bath. The note mentions Rev. John Greenwood’s nomination to Frockton chapel and lists ship arrivals and high water forecasts for London Bridge.
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Leeds
Fune Jr
John Greenwood
Thornhill
John Lister Kaye
Denby Grange
Frockton
Brooke
Lord Strange
Whiff
Duke
Kingston
Somerville
Bath
London Tavern meeting pushes declaration on election reform
The London Tavern session chaired by Brass Crosby outlines forming a committee to draft a declaration urging candidates to pledge to shorten Parliament, curb placemen and pensioners, and pursue fair representation, with detailed appointment and meeting logistics and funds oversight. Val Morris of Monmouth appeals to Monmouthshire electors to declare support for a parliamentary representative.
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London Tavern
Brass Crosby
London
House of Commons
Frederick Bull
Joseph Mawbey
John Wilkes
Edmund Dayrell
William Bullock
William Ellis
Charles Hitch
James Adair
Ciety
J. Wilkes
Hankey and Co
Lowry and Co
Halliday and Co
Derick Ball
Jane
Val. Morris
Mansion House for sale at Hingham Norfolk with outbuildings
A mansion house with six rooms on the ground floor and seven on the second, plus garrets. Features include marble chimney pieces, wainscoting, wine vaults, coach house, stables for twelve, granary, and gardens. 18 acres 2 roods 8 perches of arable and pasture land nearby. Freehold with low quit rents. Available at Michaelmas next. Inquiries to Mrs Anne Amyas or Mr Capel Bringlee of Hingham.
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Hingham
Norfolk
Norwich
Anne Amyas
Capel Bringlee
Cirencester Races Gloucestershire July Free Plate Meetings
Racing notice from Cirencester Gloucestershire describing three race days on July 2 3 and 9 with free plates of fifty pounds for various age groups and conditions. Entries close June 25 at Thomas Bell Perrot’s Brook. stipulations include weights, heats best of three, and subscription rules. Stakes funded by subscribers with penalties for noncompliance, and prohibitions on certain owners and riders.
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Cirencester
Gloucestershite
Thomas Bell
Perrot’s Brook
Bank Stock Quotes From An Old Ledger
A fragment lists bank stock values with fractions such as 154 3 4, 1 8, and 85 7 8, including references to South Sea and Old and New Ann. 3 Per Cent Bank Annuities. The lines show bid ranges and reductions, indicating market quotes from a historic financial page.
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India
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London Evening Pott
Dover
Bryant, Gill
Jamaica
Yar
Boone
Brass
Hamburgh
Trecothick
Moore
London Bridge
Mr. Heaton Wilkes
Humphry Cote
Robert Morris
William Kenrick
T. Evans
Piercefield
Felio
Henew Gardener’s
John Digks
Duke of Kingston
G. Keith
Grace-church-street
J. Johnson
St. Paul’s Church-yard
J. Almon
Piccadilly
F. Blyth Cornhill
Roel
Earl of Bedford
George Buchanan
Anne Bolen
Anne of Cleve
Henry the Eighth
Oubraken
Birch
Robert Horsfield
Ludgate-street
Freeessor
Mr. Knapton
Dr. Birch
Great Britain
Houbraken
High Court of Chancery
Peter Holford
Eig
Symond’s Inn
Chancery-lane
Simon Degge
Blyth Bridge
Whitecress
Puck
Nunns Greeny
Colton
Fletcher
Buxton
N.B
Mianifold
Derby
Mapleton
Thomas Harrell Jnn
Newstith under-Lyne
Staffocdthir
Mel. Weiles and
Farnwall
Boswell-court
Carey-street
Powell Snele
Castle
Thomas Dunn
Elizabeth Fell
Saffren Walden
J. Robson
the Feathers
New Bond-street
B. Law
Avemary-lane
Navy
Long
Thue
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