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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 16, 1786
Page
1
The document records a royal address to Parliament proroguing the session to July 18, noting the sovereign’s praise of Commons and ministers, and announcing routine orders. It also lists promotions in the War Office and a long insolvency and attorney notice section detailing multiple names, dates, and locales across London and provincial towns.
Returns of corn and grain prices from May 1 to May 6 1786 compiled by the Standard Wire. The report outlines average prices in London markets including Corn and Grain with references to exchange rates and the Gallows or Belial outlooks.
Fifty expository discourses on the sacred Passages forming the subject of Handel's celebrated oratorio Passions. Preached in the 11th year of Eccl 4 and 78 cycle in the Parish Church of St Mary. London printed for the author and sold by Buckland and Union in St Paul’s Churchyard.
An early medical pamphlet discussion reviews remedies and treatments for venereal disease. It notes European medical advances and lists works by authors such as G. Renny and William Dease, with prices and availability at Fleet Street publishers.
A sprawling 1777 royal proclamation era page describes a divorce case in Doctors Commons with Lady Ann Foley and Edward Foley of Coventry, detailing scandalous charges. It also touts FrIARS Drops a patent remedy by Robert Grub, along with warnings about imitations and a public sale of the medicine in London.
A miscellaneous Old World letter set reports Gibraltar fortifications near Inches Cave and Queen's Cave, Utrecht noble pensions extended, Paris market schemes for livestock, Rome police clashes near St Angelo, Belt Loz writ, and a large 34 gun Algerine corsair raid near Philadelphia.
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