General Quarterly Meeting of Trustees Notice
SUN FIRE-OFFICE announces a general quarterly meeting on April 9 1747 at ten in the forenoon at Bank street Cornhill London to hear losses by fire and approve claims for satisfaction. Agent offices also open at Craig’s Court Charing Cross for insuring houses goods and merchandise from fire loss across Great Britain.
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Bank-street
Cornbitt
Royal Exchange
London
Fice
Craig’s Court
Charing Cros
Great Britain
East India Company Directors Election Notice 1774
East India House March 8 1774 notice from Court of Directors on election for directors under new act. Provisions specify six for one year six for two years six for three years and six for four years to be elected by proprietors on April 23 from nine in the morning until six in the evening. Each proprietor to present a list of 24 names in four classes and scrutineers to report ties to the General Court for decision.
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East India House
United Company of Merchants of
England
East Indies
Eas India Company
India
Europe
Wade
Dhrettlogs Imine Comany
Editor of the London Evening Polit Address on American affairs
A letter argues American affairs require cool deliberation and prudence. It condemns the home councils and Tory-leaning governors for causing American opposition, condemning ministers and pliant MPs, and calling for fair, impartial taxation of America by Parliament.
America Must Not Be Taxed Without Representation
A 1774 parliamentary tract argues Americans are not represented in England and cannot be taxed without their consent. It warns against military coercion, condemns ministerial schemes, and asserts that America’s assemblies are the proper tax authorities. The piece urges wisdom, moderation, and honesty to avoid tyranny.
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America
England
East India Company
Ptt
Britain
Parliament of
Harwich mariner sues four Custom House officers
A Harwich mariner sues four Custom House officers for illegally entering his house and breaking drawers while searching for run goods. a verdict was returned for the plaintiff with damages. Cambridge reports: two gold medals for classical learning awarded to Alleyne Fitzherbert and John Seale. Heavy rains flood the fens, breaking banks and causing widespread damage, greater than since 1762.
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Harwich
Cambridge
Duke of Grafton
Alleyne Fitzherbert
St. John’s College
John Seale
Christ College
London News Summary of Public Bills and Local Events
London reports leave to introduce a bill indemnifying victuallers in Surrey for licenses taken out under old acts. Notices from Ireland show linen trade decline from 25m to 11m yards. A visit to Duke Gloucester by Mansfeld and the Attorney General is noted. Reports from Marshfield Massachusetts condemn Boston tea measures and praise New England’s wartime contributions. Tide and flood conditions sweep parts of England, affecting transport. Essex county executions, Hyde Park accidents, and local obituaries and marriages are listed.
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Surry
Great Britain
England
House of Commons
Ireland
Mansfeld
Gloucester
I Grofvendr-street
Prince of
Orange
Stotes
Guelderland
Amelia
Prussia
Denmark
Sweden
Brunswick
Gaiidersheim
Saxe-Cobourgh
Marshfield
Massachusets Bay
New-England
Boston
Boftot
East
Havig
New England
Canada
General Hill
Queen Ann
Carthagena
Admiral Saunders
Quebec
Botton
Layman
Havannah
Scipio
Moore
West Indies
Ferald’s Point
Piscataqua Harbour
Fulham
Maidenhead- Bridge
Newbury
Reading
Staines-bridge
County of Essex
Chelmsford
Justice Willd
Mary Aldgate
Elizabeth Wallis
John Litchfield
Joseph Everet
Charles Daevis
Thomas Fordham
Thomas Kendal
William Higgs
Richard Lambert
Jonathan Lowndes
Henrietta Sanford
St. Giles’s
Oxford
Stockwell
Ursula Dacey
Tho. Emery
Carenter
Covent Garden Theatre
Ambeth Palace
John C. I. .m
Archbishop of Canterbury
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Kenner
Mapleton
Mr. Pollard
Clark-lane
Hertfordshire
Broughton
Red Lion
Barnet
Ridge
Biddulph, Cocks, and Co. Bankers
Chating-cross
W.B
Carlisle-House
Soho
Soho- Pynare
General Post-Office
Derby
Ashbourne
Burton
Trent
Loughborough
Anthony Todd
Admiralty Office
Admiralty of
Justice Hall
Old Bailey
Langs & Phil
Stephens
Bertie
Vine-street
Piccadilly
Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Strand
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Socrecy
Samuel More
Shropshire
Grafton-tryser
New Bound-street
Pye
Hooper
Ludgate-street
T. Davies
Butter-street
Snelling
Freet-street
Milani
Meds
Merrill
Prince
Jagrger
Norwich
Fale
London Evening Polit
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