Public Subscription Sought After Printer Miller’s Imprisonment
A 1774 London appeal details J Miller a printer jailed for debt seeks public support via subscriptions. Friends arranged bonds to pay 2000 pounds but the lordship’s solicitor demanded immediate full payment. Miller defends his press and rights while offices and coffee houses collect subscriptions with banks to follow.
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Sim
Busine
Encuisa
Fleet Prison
J. Miller
Bristol Crown Soap by Fry Fripp and Co
Bristol white hard crown soap made by Fry Fripp and Co in Bristol sold wholesale from No 1 Salisbury Court Fleet Street London. Soap known for strength purity cleanses linen silk and cotton leaves a pleasant scent and goes farther than rivals. To prevent imposition each cake bears Fry Fripp and Co Bristol and a crown stamp.
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FRY, Fripp, and Co
Bristol
Salisbury Court
Fleet-street
Ndon
Bristol Crown
Fry, Fripp,and Co
Canal opposition meeting at Antwerp Tavern London
The proprietors and landholders across Middlesex Hertford and surrounding areas met at Antwerp Tavern to oppose a proposed canal from Moorfields to Waltham Abbey. A second meeting was scheduled for the 23rd at eleven in the forenoon to prepare a petition to present to Parliament.
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London
Antwerp Tavern
St. Leonard Shoreditch
Hackney
Tottenham High-cross
Edmonton
Enfield
Middlesex
Chesham
Moorfields
Waltham, Abbey
Flambeaux by William Thurbin Advertises New Inventions
William Thurbin, oilman at No 238 High Holborn near Vine Tavern, promotes Flambeaux that do not drop on carriages and cost 145 a dozen or 1s 6d each in smaller quantities. Also offers japanning blacking balls for shoes and boots at prices to sell or export, with allowances for bulk buyers.
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Illiam Thurbin
William Thurbin
Vine Tavern
High Holborn
England
Pectoral Lozenges and medical treatise advertised in old volume
An 18th century advertisement promotes a translated medical manual by Thomas Marrayatt with cautions for safe use, plus retail pitches for Pectoral Lozenges of Tolu by Greenough and other sellers. It warns of counterfeit lozenges and notes the genuine box inscription required for authenticity.
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Thomas Marryatt
J. S. Dodd
Corporation of Co
London
His Majesty’s Royal Avy
G. Kearfly
T. Greenough
King’s Arms
Ludgatehill
W. Bayley
Pexfumer
Cockspur-street
King’s Bench
Ludgate-hill
Folu
Admiralty Session for High Seas Offences Set in April
The Admiralty Office announces a session of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery to try offences on the High Seas within the Admiralty of England. It will be held Friday in April at Justice Hall Old Bailey at eight in the morning, signed by Phil Stephens.
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Admiralty Office
High Seas
Admiralty of
England
Justice Hall
Old Bailey
Phil. Stephens
East India Company Election Rules Proclaimed by Court of Directors
East India House March 8 1774 notice explains the Court of Directors as to the election of directors for the East India Company. It states the mode of election deemed legal after various opinions. It sets terms of one to four years and that half the Proprietors vote on April 13 from nine to six. Lists 24 qualified names per Proprietor class and directs scrutineers to settle ties by lot in the General Court.
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East India House
United Company of Merchants of
England
East Indies
East India Company
India
Europe
Kir. Sayer
Dunning
Madocks
Jackson
Wallace
Court of Directs
Missing horse owner sought in Henley incident
A man named Charles Green last February 11 hired a horse to travel toward Henley-upon-Thames and has not returned. He was seen near Twyford that evening. John French offers one guinea reward plus reasonable charges for information leading to recovering the horse, a dun color stallion with saddle and bridle, about 14 hands high.
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Charles Green
Henley-upon-Thames
John French
Reading
Berks
Twyford
London
Silent Citizen Seeks Public Support Over Damages
A letter to the public outlines a defiant reply to Lord Sand which discusses a verdict of two thousand pounds in damages. The author explains leaving the country as the only option to avoid payment but offers to cover costs and a hundred pounds, asking to reduce damages to five hundred pounds in a negotiated settlement.
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Ation
Lord Sandwich
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