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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 22, 1766
Page
3
Orders for the poor amid riots, grain prices in Northampton market, ship arrivals and sailings from Plymouth Deal and Portsmouth, lottery prize lists, and a royal conference with the Earls of Holderneife and Chatham after a levee at St James's.
Reports of aristocrats and arrivals in London including the Earl of Bristol at St James’s, Sir John Moore and Sir John Turner in town, and social commentary on laborers and single men. Obituaries and notices cover General Napier, Commodore Spire, Sir Henry Heath, Captain Ascough, and local tradesmen. A London inquest into a murder in Tyburn-lane is noted, plus weather and shipping news and a promise of Somers House reconstruction.
Sir John Prudence examines accounts with his steward Rentail noting the balance appears too low despite higher rents. He points out rents raised on teran farms near 700 pounds yearly yet the balance loses value. Rentail agrees the balance is too low and seeks guidance on adjustments.
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