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Corneille Edition Profits While Land Tax Appeals Rise
From Geneva letters we learn that the Corneille theatre edition with Voltaire’s notes aims to support Mademoiselle Corneille the niece of the French Sophocles with a handsome maintenance. The French King subscribes 200 copies and gives 150 as a gift. the Empress of Russia and Voltaire also subscribe. The rest of the item covers a London Guildhall meeting of the Land Tax Commissioners hearing appeals, noting disparities in rates between St George Hanover Square and parts of London, plus various appointments, marriages, deaths, and a robbery and break-in reports in the city.
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Geneva
Corneille
M. de Voltaire
Mademoiselle Corneille
Sophocles
Russia
Guildhall
City of
London
City of London
St. George’s
Hanover Square
George Pitt
Turin
Charles Lenox Smith
Fitz- Williams
Royal Hospitals of
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Bethlem
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Bridewell
Jenkin
Dallas
Garwood
East India Company
Robert Jones
Chelsea
the Treasury
King’s Water
Richard Handy
St. Martin’s- Jane
Lords
Treasury
Susan Lambton
Lambton
Durham
Bees
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Wapping
Rees
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Barnet
John Wilkes
Cock Inn
Aldersgate-street
Susannah Hughes
Armwright
Bath
Thomas Lewis
Radnor
Henry Lewis
Bedford-row
Bletchingley
Surrey
Mr. Eades
Peckham
Benjamin Wooaroffe
E Q
South Wark
Cole
Redlionitreet
Clerkenwell
Meuse
St. James's
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