London Notes on Officers and Overseas Ventures
London reports widespread talk of many General Officers to be dismissed and a new modelled army. It notes bets on Lord Clive's East India terms, volunteers heading East, a Dutch merchant’s failure, and new settlements ships from Bristol Liverpool and Glasgow bound for the Grenades. Also mentions St George’s Duke of York stay orders in Rome and various trade movements and ship losses.
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London
Thurtuay
Hicks’s Hall
P C W
Sardinia
Count de Viry
Curt
Rome
Duke of York
St. George’s
Lord Clive
East- India Company
Fagheer
East Indies
Wade
Amterdam
East- Indies
Eastt-Indies
Paul Snow
Cliptam
Martinico
West Indies
St. Kitts
Reuin
Bristol
Liverpool
Plymouth
Fordinant
Bay of
Guyen
Corunna
Spain
Charles Frederick Salberg
Gottenburg
Ch——h
Kniginsbridge
Fae
St. Thomas’s Hospital
Holland
Italy
Portugal
Newfoundland
East-Indies
Sound
Germany
North America
Sebastian
Deal
Fort William
Stocks and securities miscellany in a dated ledger
The item lists varied financial instruments and prices including Bank Stock 116, India stock lines, South Sea and Ditto, Old and New An, Amsterdam and Rotterdam entries, Paris May dates, Bordeaux, and Navy bills. It reads like a broker’s ledger with various half and quarter fractions and references to Consols, New and Old stocks, and related notes.
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Pitre
Piro Lidia
India
Pachalf Bk Ann
Isso
Renalf Diccao
C. Consol
Cr. Navy
Navy
Rival Poet and Fortune Ballad in 1757 Verse and Court Notices
The fragment presents 1757 era verse and brief notes on lectures and humor, with a playful clash of religious alliance themes and satire of Horus and Moses. It includes names like Conway and Stevens, plus a mock dialogue about wit, virtue, and public favor, followed by racing and social notes from an October 1763 meeting and a spring gathering of nobility and horses.
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Conway
G. Stevens
Stevens
Caxman
Fancy
Belinda
Fortune
Hamlet
Bebolnd
Races at Newe market spark concerns over political sums
The text discusses long lists of races at Newe market and doubts about the great sums and persons involved, noting prominent statesmen and patriots in a reflective, acquisitive tone as they contemplate competition and public life.
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Newe Market
Wheeler
Weffrunsler
Nesemtizht
Jorfe-rae
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Moses
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ASUS
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Mr. Pitt
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Tempte
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St. Paul’s Church Yard
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