Addressing Dearness in Provisions and Sheep Fattening
The piece urges Lord Mayor action to curb rising prices in London markets and curb market manipulation by out riders and dealers. It proposes toll reforms, slaughter limits, and turnover controls at Smithfield, with toll allocations to debt relief, plus guidance on feeding sheep with turnips and alternatives like burnet parsley borecole and cabbage for winter fodder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
British Empire
Smithfield
Hlington
Smithfeld Market
New Cross Turnpike Trustees meet to elect officials
A general meeting of the Trustees for repairing roads from Stones End in Kent and Bermondsey Streets in Southwark to Dartford and Farnborough Well in Kent and to the West end of Stroud Green in Surry is appointed for Saturday June 26 at ten in the forenoon at the Great Mansion Blackheath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Cross Turnpike
Stones-End
Kent
Bermondsey
Southwark
Dartford
Farnborough-Well
Stroud Green
Surry
Blackheath
Widow Ann Webb continues Lord Weymouth Arms Inn in Wilts
RS Webb widow of late Mr Webb who kept the Lord Weymouths Arms Inn Warminster Wilts informs nobility and gentry she continues the business and solicits their favors. She pledges to please and oblige and will gratefully acknowledge every favour signed Ann Webb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RS. Webb
Mr. Webb
Lord Weymouth’s Arms Inn
Warminster
Wilts
Ann Webb
Large Brick House and 45 Acres on Staines Moor
A letting notice advertises a large brick house with garden stable barn shed pits for a fellmonger and about forty five acres of land near the buildings near Staines Moor Middlesex. The premises are occupied by Mr Johnson and may be viewed by inquiry to Mr Edward Hutchinson in Long Acre London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michaelmas
Johnson
Staines Moor
Staines
Middlesex
Edward Hutchinson
Long-Acre
London
Public sale notice for Exmouth dwelling and grounds
To be sold at public survey on July 11 at three o clock in the afternoon at Mrs. Norris Inn Exmouth Devon for 99 years determinable on three lives to be named by the purchaser all that large dwelling house stable coach-house with garden and near an acre of garden room late the property of Richard Maddock deceased pleasantly situated on the sea coast Exmouth viewing advised by John Nation Exmouth for further particulars Ms Manly Uffculm or Mr Stribling Exeter
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norris
Exeter Inn
Exmouth
Devon
Richard Maddock
John Nation
Ms. Manly
Uffculm
Stribling
Exeter
Promissory warning in Letters to the Duke of Gratton
Postscript notes a rebuke in a London Museum issue, accusing the Duke of Gratton of breaking a promise to revive and publish the King's Patent affair with further evidence. The text suggests political intrigue around the Duke of Grafton and his rise in influence, with the public exposing the breach of pledge and public dissatisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Museum
Duke of Gratton
Admiralty
Duke of Grafton
Intrigue and Reconciliation Shape London Court Politics
London reporting on the Duke of Grafton’s return to office aided by Lady Gower and broker Thomas Bradshaw. North fears a Scottish cabinet under Lady Sue, while Weymouth loses out. A Hampton Court dinner cements terms blocking ministerial entry. Court note also covers Taylor’s manslaughter appeal and clergy law debate with Hale and Edwardian statutes cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Grafton
Offce
Gower
Susan Stewart
Madam Barréis
Thomas Bradshaw
Lord North
Sue
Princess of Brunswick
Duke Fhuld
Lord Weymouth
Bedford
Lady Sue
Court frees foreigner De Mierre in ward case ruling
A London court, after reviewing the King against De Mierre, holds that foreigners naturalized are not eligible for any office of trust. The decision, delivered by Lord Mansfield, follows a June 1770 trial at Guild Hall and a special verdict from the jury. Nearby, political unrest and electoral fears are noted including rumors of bribery and shifts in mayoral leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morine and
Deering
Armsrong and
Lisle
Hale
Court of King’s Bench
de Mierre
Farringdon
St. Thomas’s
King’s Bench
Guildhall
London
Lord Mansfield
Yeterday Parson Horne
Clacb
Appleby
Durham
Litchfield
Bloomsbury
Ireland
Striet Guard
Sn Nith
Bild of Rights
Haymarket
Whitechapel
Wilkes
Smyrna
Mefl
Bull
Alderman Wilkes
Versailles
England
Sweden
Glyne
Sussex
Arnold Kong
St. Michael, Cornhill
Drapers Company
John Weir
E.q
Dominica
Christopher Aldridge
Queen’s Royal Segiment of Foot
Charles Montagne
Portmouth
Fane
Falcon
Baines
Tweed
Collyer
Cadiz
Lizard
Englis
Gibraltar
Spithead
Lion
Wood
Newcastle
Shields
University College
Oxon
University of Oxon
Scott
Chritopher Button
New College
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Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
J. Nourse
Samuel More
K Wng
C. Hese
W. Bayley
Cockfour-street
Hay-market
Alto
A. Rothwell
Civet Cat
New Bond-street
J. Grosvenor
Angel and Crown
Holborn
Ledgate-hill
J. Price
India House
Leadenhall-sreet
Postscript
Domitian
Taylor
Court of
Smith
Leigh
Armstrong and Lisle
Davenport
Edward Rit
James the Second
Morix
Edward the Sixth
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