Indulgences Scam and Purgatory Tales Exposed
A letter from Mechanicus at Leghorn exposes fraudulent indulgence schemes tied to Rome’s seven altars and vast claimed year counts. The piece cites visions, forged revelations, and the sale of pardons, while noting prayers for souls and limited church practices amid broader European gossip on finances, revolts, and suicides in Paris and Genoa.
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Rome
St. Paul’s
Holy
Urgatory
Apotolic Chancery
Mechanicus
London Evening Post Printer Sees Vast Wealth
The speaker notes immense pleasures with ten thousand pounds, praising newfound riches and the prospects it brings, in a brisk, period voice characteristic of the London Evening Post.
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London Evening-Post
Myres
Norwich
London Evening Post
No clear headline in fragmentary text
Fragmentary OCR text references a tobacco farm and a Dutchy of Cleves Regency but lacks discernible event, person, date, or place to form a factual summary or identify a main action.
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Flanders - Beslin
Address on corn laws and relief measures in Exeter 1766
The Exeter city chamber issues a petition to Parliament detailing distress from corn prices, calling for stronger laws against forestalling ingression and regrating, and urging remedies including including potatoes and other staples. Notices follow of notable arrivals in Pall Mall and local events, with Parliament and shipping news and theater advertisements.
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London
Gety
Exeter
Jane Tuckfield
John Watter
Jr. Heath
Pall Mall
Samuel Egerton, Esq
Giiemire
Harbord Harbord
Efg
Scotland
Alexander Grant
Barr
Fortrese
Pantonsquare
David Scott
Aberdeen
Messrs
Sherman
Lewin
John
Edmund Phellan
Africa
Earl of Chesterfield
Lisbon
M. Melle de Castro
Don Emanuel da Cunha
Portugal
Maskelyne
Greenwich
Lord Clive
Petersburgh
Col
Hestor Monro
Dorking
Red Lion
Miss Evelyn
Northey
Robinhood Socierty
Butcher-row
Temple-bar
Manilla
Newman
Eagle-street
Red-lion-square
Amsterdam
Leghorn
Mediterranean
Gallipoli
Mogader
Sweeny
Gottenburgh
Liverpool
Piccadilly
St. George’s Hospital
Bell Inn
Shoreditch
Prices Bank Stock and Old An 87 1-8 each
Prices list shows bank stock figures and old annuities with fractions from 87 1 8 per cent and 1 1 4th for different issues. It records ditto notes for South Sea and Consol entries, with implied values near 88 1 1 4th and 89 3 8 1 4th, alongside a 1725 1752 hs 2 reference.
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India
South Sea
Dir
Old An
Bk Re
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Versailles
Republic of Genoa
Florence
Nou
Paris
Prince de Lamballe
Geneva
Favous
Moorfields
Seroops Court
Holborn
Collins
Gates House
Westminster
John Banker
Tyburn-lane
Oxford Road
Deal
Mary Jemima
Broady
Plymouth
Bristol
Drury-Lane
Chamont
Holland
Cattalio
Powell Polydore
Benfley
Munimia
P Mer
Caunting
Covent-Garven
Royal Convert
Hengist
Smith
Aribert
Kots
Rodogune
Ward
Bicheluia
Macklin
Faulin
King’s Theatre
Hay -Market
Lord Oglebe
King
John Melville
Hethelbrgh
Clive
Cunning Man
Covent-Garden
Mr. Woolwad
Sir George
Francis Gripe
Shuter
Miranda
Carlequin
Faustus
Ditto India Ann
An. Taner
Itto, 1758
London Bridge
Jamaica
House of Representatives
Olyphant
Huse
J. Williams
Fleet-Streets
J. Almon
S. Bladon
Paternoster Row
Richardson
Urquhart
Royal Exchange
James Otis
Roe
Francis Atterbury
Rochester
Atterbury
Biographia Brican
Lavis
C. Reymers
Gray's Inn
Holbourn
J. Rivington
R- Baldwin
W. Johnston
S. Crowder
T. Carlon
B. Law
E. Johnson
Key
Kietts
Baker’s
Exchange-Alley
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