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Scheme to raise funds for a London Bridge in 1759
A printed proposal from London outlines a subscription scheme to fund a new bridge, offering annual payments of 20,000 pounds for six years and converting subscriptions into life annuities. It claims tolls and sheriff fines would back the debt, with costs to reach 120,000 pounds, and notes security and public benefit through increased city prosperity and construction. The document includes contemporaneous war news and local notices from Fleet Street.
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BSE Ee
London Chronicle
City of London
London
Chamber of London
Stonz
Seaich
Fia
Fleet-street
Joan Wurston
Dresten
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Saxony
Franconia
Ferdinand
Cologn
Auflrdum
Britannia
New-York
Bristol
Halifax
Quebeck
Louisbourg
Island of Saints
Guadaloupe
Addie
Maria
Bona
Marseilles
Patrick
Lisbon
Gonzalvo Christofiro de Melko Teixeira
Prioner
Mayjatty
Melton
Gravesend
Robert Ballard
Ely
Bliss Maria Alexander
Hague
Sase-Hitdbourphausen
Republ Ek
Manevert
Clifton
Preftek
Muaggan