Distress and Crime Report From Westminster and Beyond
The week brings mournful notices of deaths and accidents including Isaac Fryer the City Glazier aged 82 and a hospital of misfortunes for laborers on the Westminster pier. A mason Featherstone and a gardener’s son die or are injured in accidents while a drawing of smugglers is captured near the Custom House. Wrecks and plunder on the coast are reported, along with trials at Dorchester and Kingston and broader war news from Flanders Madrid and Belgrade with political turmoil in Sweden and Turkish Albania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary Aldermary’s
Isaac Fryer
Aris
Featherstone
Westwinster
Tharsiday
Barmes
Westminster
Chandos Street
Martin
Waivenho
Essex
Eastmead
Oxenden
Leicester-fields
Newgate
Col. de Veil
Dorser
George Bezant
Robert Shaw
Shaw
John Lichfield
Frogget
Waterman
Rabb
Alexander West
Jacob Street
Rothesmith
Kingston
John White
Foots-Cray
Kent
Dassford Round House
Maidstone
Flanders
Dunkirk
Belgrade
Albania
Author appeals for May 18 raffle of Grosvenor Square house
A 18 May drawing date is fixed for the Grosvenor Square house raffle. Shares already paid in by backers will be deposited with Mr Drummond at Charing Cross or his clerk by the 76th inst. The author, E SimmonS, thanks nobility gentry and merchants for support and lists sale locations including Whites Chocolate House St James's Street and Chenevix Toyshop Hay Market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drummond
Charing-Cross
Grosvenor Square
E. Simmons
White’s
St. James’s Street
Chenevix
South Sea Stock and Annuities Market Fragments
The item lists varied quotations across South Sea stocks, annuities, and bonds with prices such as South Sea Stack near 100, Bank 144, Royal Exchange Assurance with no price, and India at 168 1 qr. Several entries reference three per cent and five per cent annuities, discounts, and half per cent premiums. The chaotic OCR reflects a market brief with numerous figures and shorthand notes from a London financial page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Sea
Prem
India
Ditta
Lake Talies
Mine Adventure
Emsperor
Ditto
Sarchegaer
General Quarterly Meeting of Trustees to Be Held in London
Notice informs trustees that the General Quarterly Meeting will occur at the office behind the Royal Exchange London on April 9 at ten in the forenoon. Claimants who suffered losses by fire are urged to present their claims for satisfaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trufees
Royal Exchange
London
Craig's Court
Charing-Cross
Great-Britain
Cock Fight Show at the Bull at Daviford
At the Bull at Daviford on Mondag and Tuesday next the 26th and 27th Instant there will be a great match of cock fighting. Four gunnesses battle and twenty guineas the odd battle. The start is at twelve o clock, two days of play in one between the Gentlemen of Surrey and the Gentlemen of Kent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cogepit
Daviford
Mondag
Surrey
Kent
Shrewsbury
Sbery
King’s Theatre
Mary
SHREWSBURY RACES AND LONDON VIEWINGS IN JUNE
Notices advertise racing at Shrewsbury on June 15 and 26 with purses of thirty and twenty five guineas, entry terms, horse ages, weights, and stabling rules. Additional items cover property searches, creditors meeting for Charles Griffith and John Binfeld estates, a commission on debts, and a lease sale of Richard Lockwood’s dwelling near Kingston with stables and grounds offered for a 15 year lease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Essex
A. B
Birchin-lane
Charles Griffith
Bedfordbury
St. Martin In the Fields
Middlesex
Fapner
Deceas
King’s Arms
Hungerford
Strand
John Binfled
Goure
Symond’s
Chancery-lane
Richard Lockwood
Weston Green
Thames Diccon
County of
Surrey
Kingston
Hampton-Gourt
Richmond
Windsor
Che Said House
Also Mentioned on This Page
Madrid
Spain
Cadiz
Weilt-Indies
N.S
Bosnia
Stockholm
Hambourg
Spring-Garden
White’s Chocolate-House
N. B
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