Death of the Bishop of Leon and the Emperor's Dispatches
From Letters from Paris we learn of the Bishop of Leon's death at sixty six. Reports from Barbary say English ships are treated with high esteem by Moors, while the Emperor of Morocco bans peace talks with France and the Dutch. ambassadors return from Sallee. The new emperor Muley Abdallah orders state prisoners slain, including Bashaw Salem Ducally, with a detailed inventory of wealth. Notices also cover military movements, Tuscan evacuations, and export changes, plus weekly weather and market data, while a long ledger lists wheat, coin, and tobacco exports and stock prices.
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Paris
Leon
de Buffy Raburn
Barbary
Gibraltar
Sallee
Muley Abdallah
Bashaw Salem
Seiz
Henry Bolney Sen and Fun Sign Removal Event
Henry Bolney and associates are removed from the Sign of the Sun in the great event at the Sun Garden near the Bedford Goffeshalls, marking a notable local alteration in early public notices.
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Henry Bolney
Sen
Fun
Bedford Goffeshalls
Watcher of Second-Hand Plate Seeks Large Quantities
Joan Howkins of Fleet Street, The Garner of Bride-lane, advertises ready cash for second-hand watches and jewels. He claims strict service, no credit, and offers high prices for quality items, with fast exchange for newer plate if available, serving country orders as if principals were present.
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Joan Howkins
Fleetstreet
Bride-lane
Fleet- Bridge
Deserter from Coldstream Regiment Hunted for Reward
A soldier named Sohn Boseley from Westminster age 23, 5 foot 9, brown shock hair with smallpox marks, once a hair Turner, absconded from Col Charles's Company in the Coldstream Regiment. A reward of two guineas plus parliamentary pay is offered for his capture and confinement in the Savoy Prison or any English county jail, with notice to Captain James Howard at the Savoy.
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Charles
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
Richard Earl of
Scarborough
Sohn Bosely
Westminster
Savoy
England
James Howard
London
Inheritance Law Discourse and Calendar of Heirs
A new publication presents a discourse on the law of inheritance in fee and the degrees of consanguinity. It includes a calendar of inheritable persons, laid out in a new method. Also advertised are works on church and state, establishment of religion, and test laws.
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Fee
Fletcher Gyles
Gray’s Inn
Holbourn
Plain and Rational Account of the Sabbath Law Defence
Publication notice announces Cal in rue iN as author of the Fourth Commandment abrogated by the Gospel. It advertises a defense against Mr Cornthwaite and includes references to publishers and prices. The item notes related works on religious marriage and servant regulations.
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Robert’ Comthwaite
Griricinis
Cornthwaite
Calebrue
D. Farmer
R. Ford
H. Whitridge
Royal Exchange
A. Dodd
Price
Price ts 6 dn Discourse of Free Thinking Octave
A late octave publication titled Discourse of Free Thinking criticizes a rising sect called Free Thinkers. It advertises availability from London and Westminster booksellers and notes a related work Christianity as old as the Creation or the Gospel a Republication of the Religion of Nature priced at 5 shillings.
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London
Westminster
Eighth Edition to Publish Additions on Free Thinking
A notice announces next Saturday the release of the Eighth Edition with substantial Additions and remarks on a late discourse of free thinking. The letter addresses N N D D and is attributed to Phileleuthrursus Lipsiensis, noting the human tendency to seek primacy in all things.
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Phileleuthrrus Lipsiensis
London Magazine for October 1736 Debates in Parliament
Advertises the London Magazine for the month of October 1736 with proceedings and debates from the latest Parliament session. Includes motions on supplies, interest reduction, Westminster matters, spirituous liquors, excise, and the Civil List. Also features weekly essays poetry and book catalogues. Printed by Astley at the Rose and sold by booksellers.
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London
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Bridge
Southwark
Day
T. Astley
St. Paul's
Two Pocket Volumes With Curious Cuts Noted
An 18th century public notice advertises two neat pocket volumes in twelves with curious cuts of the right honorable George Granville Lord Lansdowne. The works in verse and prose are printed for J. and R. Tonson at Shakespeare's Head in the Strand and at Homer’s Head near St. Dunstan’s Church Fleet Street, with a shop also in Westminster Hall.
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Giorge Granville Lord Lansj Downe
Mayen
R. Tonfon
Shakespear’s Head
Serand
L.gilliver
J. Clarke
Homer
St. Dunstan’s Church
Fleet-street
Westminster-Hall
This Day is Published October 1736 Publick of Letters
The issue lists contents on natural religion and miracles, reviews Dr. Butler’s Analogy, remarks on Father Souciet and Charlevoix, with a new theory of the Deluge by W Whitton and praise for Mrs Singer’s Letters. Includes sketches of Thracian history and Japan description. Printed for Wothngs and R Manby at the Royal Society in St Daul’s West End.
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Polemon II
Cotys
Thrace
Til
Charatter
Les Amusemens
de Spa
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