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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 15, 1766
Page
4
A social letter laments rising corn and provision prices and urges reform to protect the poor. It argues wages must track the cost of living, cites Elizabethan wage-rating statutes, and dramatizes a family’s yearlong struggle on meagre diet, debt, and possible workhouse.
Historic OCR fragment shows water level mentions at London Bridge and a jumble of financial terms. It lists times and prices, including bank stock entries, Consols, and Navy bonds, with scattered numerals and old currency markers. The readable items indicate market quotes and miscellaneous securities from a bygone era.
An aged widow Frances Wibaird of Farnham in Surry County is requested to deny an account of several debts shown by a peculiar old ledger. The case appears before local trustees as a preliminary step to settle payments and recover funds.
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