Notice of General NM Quarterly Meeting in London
Sun Fire-Office announces a General NM Quarterly Meeting at Bank-freet Cornhill London on April 1 1774 at ten in the forenoon. All persons with losses by fire are requested to file claims for satisfaction. Attending offices in Craig's Court Charing Cross insure houses goods and merchandise from losses by fire across Great Britain.
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SUN
Bank-freet
Cornhill
Royal Exchange
London
Ang Los
Craig’s Court
Charing Croft
Great Britain
East India Company Directors Election Rules 1774
The Court of Directors declares a new method for selecting East India Company Directors by ballot on April 13, with lists of 24 qualified names per Proprietor divided into four term groups of one to four years. The six highest in each class are elected, votes not transferable, disputes resolved by lot in the General Court per the Charter.
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East India House
United Company of Merchants of
England
East Indies
East India Company
India
Europe
Sayer
Dunning
Madocks
Jackson
Wallace
Moe
Court of Directors
Council
The Sixth Edition Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers
A historical notice notes the sixth edition of a Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers Knight Comptroller General of His Majesty Works. The edition includes explanatory notes from Oriental Gardening and is advertised with price details and publisher location. Also referenced is an Epistle from Oberea Queen of Otaheite translated by T Q Z Efq.
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William Chambers
Knight
J. Almon
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Oberea
Otaheite
Joseph Banks
Dublin
South Sea
Cinna and the Goat in a London Ledger Tale
A correspondent laments a figure named Cinna and his satire on a powerful council. He recalls professional vanity, prepended by a goose harvest tale where his uncle hurls a child into a stream amid a late goatherd crisis, sparking rival anger and calls for satisfaction.
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Blaze
Bullface Doublefee
C. Fx
Simonburne
Johnson
Cinna
Camden
Burke
Tomile
Junius Faia
Lord Chatham
Sage
Wallington
Heaton
Middlesex
Rascal
Proceedings and Robberies in 18th Century Notices
Friday March 11 reports an officer receiving the cross of St Louis and a pension after a private audience with the Duke of Aiguillon. Canterbury witnesses a highway robbery near Gravesend ending with the suspect’s capture and a shiny candlestick found on him. Also noted are a copper shock death, a Maidstone attorney Willard’s death, Guinea coin debasement near Halifax, and Cornelius Winter and Methodists laying a Tabernacle foundation in Haverfordwest with private worship.
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Paris
Ot Aiguillon
Cross of St. Louts
Canterbury
Dartford
Gravesend
London
Westminster
John Fielding
Perfor
the Swan
Willard
Maidstone
Leeds
Halifax
George
Cornelius Winter
Contested Irish Bills and Attorn ey General De fense
London commentary asserts forged Irish foutine and Stamp Bills story, defends Attorney General against allegations of neglect and infidelity. Notes the official committee drafting the bills, cites care in presenting to the House of Commons, and rebuts omissions claims. Mentions Guildhall fence order for voters and reports harbor news, lotteries, robberies, and obituaries.
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Ireland
House of Commons
Committee of Supply
Revenue
Trancriv
Fisherman’s Goat: A Clerk’s Fall into the Fish Pond
A quarreling tailor seeks redress from a clerk who threatens legal action. The clerk’s courage collapses as a pursuing goat charges a man’s posterior, plunging him into a fish pond. The goat’s loyalty to his master’s kin moves the scene near Newcastle, ending with the clerk fleeing in mockery.
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Inna
Witery
Newcastle
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Drury
Theatre Royal
Lear
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T Vale Theatre Royal
Coventa Garven
Citizen
S. Y.lph
Harlequin’s Gambols
Herod
Marianne
Cockpit Royal
St. James’s Park
Herts and Effex
Ellis
Herts
Champ
Burgh
Newington-Green
Bishop
Gate-Street
William Tinch
Lionel Poole
Edmund Pope
William Withers
N. B
Wagster
Excise
Isaiah Wagster
Joseph Warner
David Milo
Brewhou'é
Well-street
Soho
Admiralty Office
High Seas
Justice Hall
Old Bailey
Phil, Stephens
Yaterday
Flanders
Country News
Lord Harcourt
Panegueric
Court of Common Council
Ang Ey
Gosport
Hind
Mercury
Panther
Spithead
Senegal
Betsey
Haycroft
Rainbow
Walter Bake
Depford
Anthony Hemmings
Kellal Green
Harrow Road
Hemmings
Bow-street
Mary Gould
Phillips
Hoage
Maddox-street
Jamaica
Miss Storer
Thomas Storer
Golden-square
Rumford
John Farrel
John Affleck
Dalham-hall
Suffolk
High Wickham
Elicl Blackbourne
Pall Mall
Wm. Sneyd
Kinnawley
Cranecourt
Chancery-lane
Geo. Prestor
Cheapside
Metcalfe
Stangte
Rivers
Swallowstreet
Rogers
Cannon
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