Canterbury elects Keeper of Ratcliff library at Oxford
A report details the election of the Keeper of the Ratcliffe Library at Oxford in the room of the late Mr Wife. Reverend Benjamin Kennicot fellow of Exeter College is chosen Librarian by high state electors including the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. The piece also notes naval postings, prize drawings at Guildhall, and a sequence of local notices and marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canterbury
Ratcliff
Oxford
Wife
Benjamin Kennicot
Exeter College
Ratcliffe
Great Britain
University of Oxford
London
Winchester
Court of King’s Bench
Rolls
Court of Common Pleas
Portsmouth
Zephyr
Spithead
Downs
Phenix
Tonyn
St. Antonio
Guildhall
Died in Norwich FRS William Ardheron eminent broker
Eminent stock broker Mr William Ardheron FRS died in Norwich after a long and fatiguing illness. The notice names Mrs Lister of Old Bedlam Bishopsgate Street as related. Funeral arrangements were not specified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lister
Old Bedlam
Bishopsgate-Street
Norwich
William Ardheron
Politician gratefully thanks Devon electors at Exeter Castle
A multi county collection of letters from 1767 where Gentlemen and Freeholders in Devon Monmouth Northampton and Northamptonshire receive thanks for nominations and support. Figures like J Parker jun John Stepney and G B Crarke pledge to uphold kingly service and welfare.
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Anglesey
Beaumaris
Fard
Hue Williams
Peuth
Cornwall
Havns
Bodmin
Tour
O&b
C Sr. Rubyn
McLesworth
Devon
Castle of
Exeter
Couny
J. Parker
el Etion
King George
Sutton
O&t
G. B. Crarke
A London Post Letter Urges Essex’s Remedy for Famine
A Postscript to the London Evening Post recommends a remedy once used by the Earl of Essex in Ireland to curb Engravers and Forestallers causing Dublin famine. The author cites a sharp crackdown, hanging of two market figurers, and claims the remedy cures all other medicines’ failures, sold by John Ketch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Evening Post
Meres
Earl of Essex
Ireland
Queen Elizabeth
Dublin
Lord Essex
John Ketch
Eig
Criticizer of Pamphlet Misrepresents Facts on Papists
The letter challenges a printer for misrepresenting Catholic claims in Parliament and church ranks. It argues Papists are not yet archbishops or lords and condemns their presses for pressuring Protestant subjects. It praises the Brunswick succession inquiry as timely and harmful to Papist aims. It also notes a desire for more conversions to Protestantism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meres
Brunswick
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Reading
Alder
Abingdon
M. Blewitt
Cooper’s Arms
Stert
St. James’s
Westminster
Heade
Academy
Wardour-street
Bremer
Hyde
Hendon
John Twyford
Abchurchlane
Thomas Lampher
Elq
Fisher
Cobham Tilt
Cobham
Surry
Lord Gage
Sussex
Ripley
Godalmin O
Loyle
St. Sepulchre’s
St. James and St. John
Clerkenwell
Shoreditch
Bondstreet
Piccadilly
Constantinople
Hassan Bey
Euxine Sea
Georgia
Williams
Peggy
Geneva
Kid
Shetland
St. Margaret's Lothbury
Thomas Waghorn
Bedford
Thomas Hatton
St. Alban’s.tentlemen
St. Alban’s
Ainey
Joun
Radcliffe
ST. Alban
S. Ohn Radcliffe
Borough of
Gente
Alban
Zhur
Villiers
Richard Sutton
Glamorgan
Vernon
Lam
Avith
Jarsoud ‘Thomas
Richard Tarberville
Monmouth
Newport
Usk
Bathurst
John Stepney
Dery
County of
Derby
Ball
Henry Harpur
Northampton
Thomas Howe
Elelun
Sam
Howe
Geo. Osborne
Geo
Bripees Rooney
John Byrom
M.A. F.R.S
Trinity College
Cambridge
Manchester
J. Harrep
Rivington
St. Paul’s Church-Yard
Dodsley
Pall-Mall
Walter
Charing-Cross
Graham
Craven-Street
the Strand
Town of
Lancasters
Lancaster
J. Gavenoiz
Mortimer
Market Isley
Berks
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