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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 16, 1767
Page
3
A detailed account describes a public celebration in Baningham with prizes for spinning and knitting. Gentlemen hosted a feast, a quartet of Stewartish games and a large stage in the street. A young girl Wil kinson excelled in spinning, weaving yarns and racing with skill. The event praised industry as a civic benefit and urged imitation. There is note of canal funding efforts and local market prices for grains in Devizes.
Shipping notices list numerous vessel names and origins from Riga Memel Dantzick Hull London and other ports with voyages to Liverpool Stettin Koningsberg Bremen and Barbadoes. Entries include ships like Jenny Betsey Wright Elizabeth Waters and Three Brothers along with ports such as Memels Rotterdam and Falmouth. Deal entries note sailings including the Fly to Madeira and wind conditions.
Yesterday King and Royal Dukes reviewed the Train of Artillery in Hyde Park then held a grand levee at St James's before setting out for Richmond. The Duke of Newcastle arrived from Claremont and attended the House of Peers in the afternoon. Bills for Blackfriars Bridge, London Bridge toll removal, Newgate rebuilding, Royal Exchange repair, and Thames embankment work move toward royal assent. The bill also targets parish mortality regulation and Lee navigation improvements. A new Bank room for Directors and Committee is rising near St Christopher's Church.
The article describes architectural enlargements to the Dutch Synagogue in Duke's Place, detailing a north side extension of eighteen feet, a thirty-two foot wide great hall, a twenty-seven foot high wall, and a private west-end committee room. An inscription bearing Agno Mundi 5526 is noted, asserting the world’s creation 3759 years before Christ.
A jury awarded the plaintiff one shilling damages and costs after a brief hearing. News from Toulon reports three new 36 gun frigates arrived from Genoa for French service. The Hunter cutter under Lieut Grenville reached Portsmouth after a cruise, while Folkstone and Duke of Cumberland cutters sailed from Corona. At Woolwich, trials compared pumps on HMS Chester showing Bowden and Martin devices discharging twenty two and twelve and a half tons in ten minutes respectively. A Cornstaple daughter eloped with a naval officer to Scotland, and a London sharp er was tracked from Carlisle to Berwick after counterfeit drafts. An old Scot, Duncan M Allester, died at Cromartie aged 103, having served in 1715 and 1745. Warren’s Imperial Milk of Roses touted as a vegetable skin treatment. Sold by Richard Warren in Marybone street and through Mr Cook in Paternoster Row.
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