Premiums for American colonies grape and vine premiums
Strand announces Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce premiums for vines, wines, American vines, cotton, annatto, indigo, zebra wood, and more. Awards include gold and silver medals conferred for top quantities and quality, with certificates required from magistrates or officials and samples due by stipulated dates in 1772–1774. The notice ends with a church appointment in Curry Mallet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strand
Society For the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures
America
Europe
Maiety
Society
Annatto
Dominions
London
Endigo
Guatemala
Famine Strains Bavaria As Bartered Grains Are Used
May reports from Munich and Augsbourg describe extreme hardship in Bavaria as famine bites. Government orders evacuation for the idle and foreigners while efforts to obtain corn from Italy and Austria continue. Old stockpiled barrels of four from 1632 are repurposed to make bread for the poor, raising fears for Ratisbon’s survival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Tirol
Switzerland
Gustavus Adolphus
Bavaria
Italy
Austria
Ratisbon
Augsbourg
London Court Debates City Lands and Marine Affairs
At the Court of Common Council the committee report on the upper City Marshal duty and ending sale of the office was discussed. The court favored filling the post by purchase, referred the vacancy back to the lands committee, and barred marshals from selling victuals or fuels. Other actions included measures to regulate prisoners and encroachments on the Thames and a push to curb price rises by boosting mackerel and herring supplies. News items note Portsmouth Naumachia preparations, a Crown review of the Blues on Wimbledon Common, ship arrivals from Bombay and the Bay of Honduras, the Gresham Committee election, a fire at Windmills near Newington, and several promotions, marriages, and deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Common Council
Committee of City Lands
Alderman Rossiter
Roffiter
Alderman Oliver
Tower
Oliver
Durham Yard Committee
London
River Thames
Board of Works
Scotland Yard
Thames
Portsmouth
Lord Sandwich
Admiral Y
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
Blues
Wimbledon Common
Greenwich
Bay of Honduras
Gresham Committee
Tretothick
Wilkes
Common Council
Musick
Griffin
Pledge
Newington
Surry
George Rooke
6Th Regiment of Dragoons
John M‘dowall
Adam Cockburne
11Th Regiment of Dragoons
Andrew Lyon
Governor Verell
Charles Kent
Wordsworths
Wordsworth Place
Doncaster
Salisbury
Rideout
Farnham
Dorset
Hinckelman
Houghton
Hants
William Backwell
Pall Mall
Aspinwall
W.N. Hart
Stafford
Valentine Underwood
Smith
Carzonstreet
Berry
Dean-street
Soho
Tunecliffe
Albemarle-freet
Ansford
Wilts
Samuel Woodford
Castle-Carey
Hackney
Peter Elton
South Sea House
Bailey
James Bailey
Thomas Egerton
Farthinge
Northamptonshire
Chelsea
Hewet
Gilchrist
Parliament-street
Westminster
Stoke Newington
Bathert
Cheffon
Indignant reply to Rev Horne over Cotes Wilkes feud
A London Evening Post letter condemns Rev Mr Horne for false accusations against Mr Cotes and Mr Wilkes. The author defends Cotes, denounces calumny, and quotes Shakespearean lines to expose duplicity, pledging to support Wilkes while signaling personal risk and club affiliations.
Ship News From May 27 Ports and Arrivals
Deal reports ships remaining as before and several sail to Maryland Cadiz Dublin and Tobago with Wind S W. Arrivals include Portland from Grenades Union from Barbadoes Briton from North Carolina Charm ing Polly from London and more with several others listed and noted arrivals at Lisbon Nice Smyrna Rotterdam Ancona Dominica and other ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Smith
Maryland
Oporto
Gardger
Cadiz
John Galley
Clark
The
Straits
Good Intent
Scarvel
Dublin
John
Morrison
Liverpool
Minerva
Wilson
Tobago
Talus
Innis
Lisbon
Severn
Baden
Wind S.W
Lancaster
Portland
Thompson
Union
Hughes
Barbadoes
Betty
Ball
St. Vincent's
Hamburgh
Charming Polly
Hall
London
Hull
Hutchinson
North Carolina
Akerman
Chichester
Britannia
Bainbridge
Bell
Kennedy
Carolina
King
Nice
Foster
Smyrna
Mary
Fortune
Constantinople
Rotterdam
Fanny
Cheerman
South Carolina
Ancona
Nautuus
Barfoch
Petersburgh
Dominica
Colebrook
Reeveley
Printer of the London Evening Post Sends Gray Elegy Variant
A vendor offers an edition of Mr Gray's Church-yard Elegy from 1751 with a previously omitted stanza. He notes the lines preceding the epitaph and a parenthetical couplet about violets and a redbreast, claiming the pieces are exceptionally beautiful. Sam, your humble servant, PHILO-GRAY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Philo-Gray
Gentlemen and Freeholders of Monmouth Hold Parlia mentary Choice
Sheriff of Monmouthshire announces two meetings at Uff, on the sixth day of the next month, to select a proper person to represent them in Parliament. He urges gentlemen to attend in person or by an authorized proxy to declare their sentiments in favor of a candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkes
Appleby’s
Uff
Gottingen
P. Pepin
Electorate of
Hanover
Waynfleet
Archbishop Wartam
Geoffrey Chaucer
William of Wickham
Oueraken
Birch
Robert Horsfield
Ludgate-street
Mr. Knapton
Dr. Birch
Great Britain
Houbraken
God
W. Nicoll
St. Paul’s Church Yard
Richardson and Urquhart
Royal Exchance
T. Durham
Cockspur- Street
Chain
Three New Pamphlets Published This Day
The notice lists three pamphlets released today. The first contains two authentic speeches from the House of Commons on the recent negotiations with Spain plus notes shaping reader judgment on peace and war. The second defends recent parliamentary actions to enforce quieting possession, with an audavit in Exchequer about a spoliation affecting estate titles granted by the Lords Treasury. The third presents the authentic debate on February 27 1771 about a bill repealing a Notum Tempus clause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Court of Exchequer
Duke of Portland
Treasury
James Lowther
House of Commions
J. Alton
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Also Mentioned on This Page
St. James’s
William Speke
Curry Mallet
Somersetshire
Charles Poulteney
London Gazette
London Evening Post
Mr. Horne
Mr. Cotes
Mr. Wilkes
Cotes
Mons. D’eon
Fenchurch-street
Omas Grenidon, Esq
Bromley
Kent
Ship News
Piercefield
Royal Authority
Doctor’s House
Duke-street
Kearfly
Woodfall
Charinger
Shropshire
New Bond-firet
Parker
Davenhill
Cornill
Flexney
Gray’s Inn
Holborn
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