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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 31, 1774
Page
3
Maritime notices record arrivals and movements: the Lovely Mary Crook sails from Dublin while the Princess Royal East Indiaman and India Pilot sail for Leghorn. Betsey, Serjeant, Swift, Lante, and other vessels in Downlands. arrivals include Expectation Wake and Favourite Betsey at Madeira, Ida and Ann at Dover from Trieste, Fox at Plymouth from Dominica, and Minerva at Philadelphia from London.
The Upper Assembly passed a second reading and committed to loans on Exchequer bills and debated a woollen and cotton utensil export ban. A Thames navigation bill and party-wall building measures were read. Reports cover debt totals, court affairs, royal household movements, naval dispatches, and local crimes including mugging in London.
Court proceedings recount a case where a man challenged by extortionists signed a nine guineas note after valuables were seized from his house. The report also lists bets and horse racing entries from Nottingham races including Towzer Gulder Duchess Foxhunter Pilot and other horses with various purses and heats.
The Commons pass and engross several bills including loans on Exchequer bills and relief of insolvent debtors while ordering duties on imported dyed goods. A petition from Penn and Penn about Philadelphia property in a Quebec bill is heard and referred. Mr Mackworth moves to present a pension from
Derbyshire sale of three freehold farms in Ballidon totaling 288 acres 2 roods 25 perches, held by tenants at will Thomas Buxton John Fernyhough and John Enfor. A Hilton freehold of 89 acres 1 rood with eight cowgates plus 605 acres of common right in Hulton. Mrs Smith holds life interest under a lease. Details from Mr Henry Chawner Ashby or Mr Francis Beresford Ashbourne.
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