Lancaster Gentlemen Address To Parliament From Tho Stanley
We the Gentlemen, Glergy, and Freeholders of Lancaster County Palatine express thanks for support in the General Election. Tho Stanley pledges to repay the honour by continued attendance in Parliament and focus on Lancaster’s commercial interests. He offers respectful assurances and remains your devoted servant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Palatine of Lancaster
County of
Lancaster
Stanley
County of Lancaster
Jarumbset
Elf
Thomas Egerton
Lona
Aprilzo
Cambridge County candidates pledge service to constituents
A 1780 broadside from Yoshe Geka and freeholders of Cambridge and Lancaster solicits support for parliamentary candidacy. Letters from Sampson Gideon, Robert Manners, Thomas Lister, and Thomas Egerton urge attendance at nomination days, promise independent, faithful service, and focus on landed and mercantile interests.
Protestant Association Calls General Meeting Before Petition
A London notice announces a second General Meeting of the Protestant Association prior to presenting the London Petition to Parliament. It urges unity for civil and religious liberty, warns against Catholic influence, and invites London residents to sign the Protestant Petition at the President's House in Welbeck Street before four o'clock each day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Protestant Association
London
Huse of Commons
England
Wales
Scotland
Althe
Great Britain
G. Gordon
Welbeck-Brad
Welbeck Street
Caution Issued After The Lincoln Drafts Theft
A public caution from Lincoln reports a theft of drafts from Mr Thomas Hans pockets on Friday April 28. The items include several drafts with dates in April and May, drawn on Halifax and Bradford Bank and others. A ten guinea reward is offered by T Preston of Liaton for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the culprit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
POLIC
Lincoln
Tho. Hans
Bradford
Wm. Beeth
Pollard
Town
Watson
Hardcastie, Cathey and Co
O.d Swanstairs
London
Halifax
Benj. Robinson
Richard Bracken
John Bracken
Bradford Bank
John Janatt
Leach
Hardcasle
Weller
Report on St Vincent affairs published in London May 1780
London print dated May 11 1780 transmits the report from Mr De Grey on the case of St Vincent estate proprietors and others. It states goods produced on the island are not liable to seizure by British cruisers when aboard neutral ships or between St Vincent ports, and notes no seizure for drop ships moving within the island. The document closes with a note of satisfaction in contradicting an account of the loss of the Ramilles.
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London
William Crichton
Whitehall
George Germain
St. Vincent
Great Britain
Island
St. Lucia
Barbadoes
Rodney
Monsieur
Moor
la Garand
Bay of Biscay
Lisbon
Greyhound
Walter
New York
West Indies
Firth
Halifax
St. Maloes
Nemours
la Goftenois
St. Domingo
Bourdeaux
Jersey
Nancy
Barton
Jamaica
Quebec
Torbay
Shrewsbury
Plymouth
Cruitz
Walsingham
West India
Gowland
Calcutta
Baffora
Aleppo
Asia the Less
Constantinople
Vienna
Baifora
Bengal
Supreme Court of Judicature
East
Bottom
Lincolnshire
Dartford
Pierson
Coxheath
Warley-common
Liverpool
Whittington Heath
Litchfield
William Mills
Bow Church
R.v
Caomibes
Philadelphia
Foster
St. Ann’s Black Friars
Coombes
Old Bailey
William Edwards
William Randall
Bagnigge Wells
Joseph Bizy
Bruth
Islington Fields
Patrick Waters
Thomas Humphreys
William Billany
Pancras Fields
Robert Winter, Esq
Gray’s Inn
Charles Hornby
James Farrer
G.harman, Esq
Bristol
Maria Serjeant
Knightstridge
John Halder
Fenchurchtstreet
Mackie
Cheapside
Samuel Wilson
Clapham
Charlotte Adamson
Thames-street
Chatham
Davis
James Stewart
Mountstewart
Hammersmith
Alexander Moreton
Leprey
Jonathan Smythson
Mr. Brandon
Bishopsgate Street
Two ships damaged near Plymouth in violent storm
Reports say two ships sustained injuries near Plymouth during a great storm but were not lost. An Admiralty express asked Admiral Gambier to dock them for repairs, with hopes they will be fit for service in a few weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bienfaisant
Plymouth
Admiralty
Admiral Gambier
Gold
Africa
Meniton
Lefere
Cape Coast
Irish State Lottery Policies for 1780 Offer by W Weller
A London notice by W Weller at Oxford Street and Grosvenor Square sells Irish State Lottery Policies of five shillings two shillings sixpence and one shilling. Each policy offers chances to win English State Lottery capital prizes, with daily draws and promised logs of numbers sent from Dublin to London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Weller
Oxford-street
Scar Wrells-street
Oxford
Tee
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Cambridge
Gentlatten
Sampson Gideon
St. James’square
Spithead
Marquis of
Granby
Robert
Manners
Thomas Lister
Wu, Crichton
Thomas DE Grey
Germaiz
Lord George
Tery
W. Weller Haying
Dublin
Patent and Commissioners
Dubls
Keners
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