Marriage notices and shipping updates from May moments in Leicestershire
Northampton and Nottinghamshire marryings surface with Clement Winstanley and Miss Parkyns at Bunny Park and Thomas Lee Thornton weds Miss Reeve of Melton Mowbray. London reports deaths, and a string of naval and harbor announcements include the Britannia sailings, the Dover quay works, and multiple ship movements in Deal Ipswich and Dover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northampton
Bunny Park
Nottinghamshire
Clement Winstanley
Leicester
Miss Parkyns
Tho. Parkyns
Melton Mowbray
Leicestershire
Lee Thornton
Brockhall
Miss Reeve
Wm. Reeve
Ipswich
Edward Hibgame
Long Stratton St. Michael
Norfolk
Mails Smith
Horningsheath
Quebec Bill Passes Upper Assembly and Irish Bills Voted
Report of legislative actions includes the Quebec bill passing 41 to 15 in the Upper Assembly and second and third readings of measures on secure prisoner lives in gaols and quarters for officers in North America. Also notes petitions, royal assent commissions in Ireland, and the rejection of a Papist lending bill after debate and voting tallies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Durham
North Ameria
Massachuset’s Bay
Bollan
Houses of Lords and Commons
St. James’s
Simon Earl Harcourt
Ireland
Armagh
Dublin
Foundling Hospital
House of Lords
Cloyne
England
Privy Council
Parliament Debates Linen and Woollen Trade Bounties
In the Commons, Charles Whitworth reported three resolutions for grants totaling 43 6451 to cover past debts, 13 0001 to the African Company for fort repairs, and 1 250 000 in interest-free Exchequer bills until April 1775. A woollen linen enquiry then centered on a proposed three halfpence per yard bounty, with opposition from woollen and cotton interests. the motion was defeated 63 to 129 after a long debate and committee division. The session adjourned with mixed progress on trade measures and a cattle driving bill introduced for London and Westminster.
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Charles Whitworth
Committee of Supply
African Company
Great Britain
Jenkinson
James Lowther
Westmoreland
Shire Hall
Prescot
Ireland
Thomas Clavering
Frederick Campbell
Lord Beauchamp
Lord North
Manchester
Lancashire
Nice
London
Westminster
Budget debates and finance moves in Parliament 1774
The House debated bills to curb fraud in hops imports and set legal tender limits for light silver coin. A Budget hearing opened by Lord North housed a two hour and twenty minute account of military and civil expenses totaling 6,592,000. He proposed paying off parts of consols and Navy stock, plus a Sinking Fund and lottery tickets, with subscription rules and staged payments. Barré Burke and others offered substantial comment on the French budget and England's finances, concluding with broad parliamentary agreement on the resolution and adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pee
Lord North
France
Barré
E. Burke
Condué
India Company
Mr. Burke
Mr. Cornwall
W. Meredyth
Lower Assembly Grants Leave to Intro Two Debtors Relief Bill
The Lower Assembly gives leave to bring in a bill to explain and amend an act of the 32d year of the late Majesty for debtors relief, discharge of prisoners under conditions, and preventing actions on judgments without leave. Also ordered to extend a 13th year act concerning distillers and corn spirits to all stillers, to secure excise revenue.
Advant ages of an Alliance with the Great Mogul
A 173? pamphlet by John Morrison argues for a British alliance with the Great Mogul. It emphasizes three main aims: preserve and prosper the East India Company, secure vast royal revenue, and boost exports of British manufactures. Published in London by Cadell and others.
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East-India Company
Great Britain
John Morrison
George II
France
Ireland
London
T. Cadell
Strand
J. Millan
Charing Cross
Richardson and Urquhart
Royal Exexchange
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Thonborn
Guinea
Downs
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Kent
Fairclough
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Mary
Campbell
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Olive, Harris
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Dauphin
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Austria
Louis Stanislus Xavier
de Provence
Maria Josepha Louisa
Duke of
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Charles Philip
D’ Artois
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Elizabeth Philippa Maria Helena
St. Kit's
Ralph Payne
Parry
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Lima
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Chili
William Paynter
Navy Office
Edward Bentham
Ancell
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Christopher Lawless
James Burrel
George Stephen Harfey
Bond
Luesday
Christiana Williamson
Wandworth
Patrick Lifford
Baldwin
Hammersmith
Lawless
OK Bailey
William Jones
Peregrine Flogg
William Houghton
Israel Brakewell
Thomas Penny
Duke-treet
Bloomsbury
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Martha House
Bunhill Row
William Hawke
Charles Hart
Knightsbridge
Walham Green
Margaret Dyer
Anne Kelly
John Ward
Jeremiah Burn
Edward Anderson
Mr. Holberry
Dulwich College
Taylor
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That Place
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Devon
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Eys
Wood
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Norwich
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Hoxton
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Rd. Motley
St. Catharine’s Court
St. Catharine’s
Wm. Hollingsworth
Bishopsgate-street
Edward Tudor
John Cunliffe
Akley
Yorkth
the White Swan
Gargrave
Robert Clements
Bedford
The
White Swan
Thomas Darby
Cradley
Wine-street
Bristol
Heele the Younger
Pinley
Rowington
War-Ofice
Paomorions
Horse Grenadier Guards
John Robinson
Tho
Staunton
Acst
Teagoons
Wm. Gunn
Naffau Smith
Horace Churchill
Cornet
16Th Reg. Light Dragoons
John Clement Ives
Reg
Foot
James Ogilvie
Charles Cochrane
George Boscawen
Ath Reg. Foot
John Campbell
St. Clair Abercromby
Walter Scot
James Stair Lindsay
Emanuel Barker
Fitz Maurice Connor
Wm. Barker
Grogan
M'Dermott
Rowland Swan
Robert Hastings
Joseph Moland
Enfien
Agth
David St. Clair
Charles Williams
48Th Reg
Henry Hyatt
G6th
Robert Connor
Fist
Robert Drummond
58Th Reg
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Gledtanes
St. Innes
Archibald Montagu Browne
London Bridge
Corm-Merket
Bear Key
Joseph How
William Marshall
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Pedasidey
Moai
Ostavo
Alexander Gerard
F. Divinity
King’s College
Aberdeen
W. Strahan
W. Creech
Edinburgh
T. Ae
Tate
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