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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 10, 1772
Page
4
A long critique argues that tithes burden rural clergy, provoke corruption, and erode public respect. It advocates replacing tythes with a universal tax raised by government, distributed by church convocation, to fund all livings fairly and maintain clerical dignity without landholder penalties.
A fragment from the London Evening Pow reflecting on audience tastes and stage praise. It mentions nongenuous souls, Alexander's mind, Rome, Mars, and a performer praised for simplicity. The text evokes a theatrical scene with vague references to audience, actors, and triumphs.
The piece outlines Lord Valentia's intended second bid for the earldom of Anglesea, arguing that if witnesses who discredited him in England were proven perjured in the Irish Lords trial, his family might recover honors. It also notes Irish anger at the Lord Lieutenant’s private household measures and cites court decisions and political debates on London governance, with local anecdotes and notices.
R Richards and Co at No 44 near Bartletts Buildings Holborn advertise a State Lottery with tickets at 6d and 4s 6d shares. They claim previous lotteries offered large prizes and promise accurate accounts of winners. Drawings begin November 16 with a claim that not more than two blanks will occur per prize.
Sir John St Aubyn Bart requests tradesmen and other creditors to send an account of their debts to Mr Gaaler of Essex Street in the Strand for prompt discharge.
A Norfolk horse theft notice from 1772 seeks information on a Chesnut gelding about 15 hands with a blaze and white spots and a bay mare about 15 hands with a white star. The informant, James Barwick of Waltham Abbey, offers two guineas for return of the gelding if brayled or ten guineas for catching the offender if the mare is stolen. Information to Mr. Sanderson, Hog Lane, willard.
This day published the Family Physician eighth edition enlarged and interleaved price 1s 6d or 25 in boards keep at country houses for sudden illness aids benevolent to assist neighbours also Letters to Married Women 2d edition by the same author recommended for those likely to have children and invalids published by G Kearfly Notting Hill Gate and Woodfall at Charing Cross and at book sellers in town and country plans of Smiths Family Medicine Chests may be had gratis at above places or at his Chymical Warehouse 57 Newgate Street
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