New Fashioned Farmer and a London Auction of Virtues
A satirical letter-writer proposes a shop titled A New Invented Warenouszk For The Mind, offering complete habits from head to foot with embedded virtue. The piece mocks fashion, moral claims, and public figures, lampooning Parson Horne, Dr Wilson, and Lord Mayor candidates while previewing controversy over land, inclosures, and parliamentary debates.
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Thiave
St. Giles’s
Monmouth-street
Owever
Matcall
Hastings
Guildhall
Horne
Wildman
Harrington
Michell
Wilson
Don Quixote
Sheriff Wilkes
Kat
M‘aulay
Brass Crosby
George Bellas
London
Edward the Third
Antient truths and public utility in a London printer's note
A London Evening Pot printer defends old fashioned honesty and durable knowledge. He presents experimental rules for public utility, warning against fools and pretenders while asserting that defending the poor is more important than personal slights.
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Trlc
Anonymous MP Criticized Over Personal Abuse Letter
A writer taunts the Printer of the London Evening Pott and a London MP who runs a shop in Pall Mall for vile satire. The letter, signed anonymously, is warned about safety and reputational harm, hinting at consequences for the author. Dated October 174.
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London Evening Post
Rumor of Scottish elopement false says Lady took nothing valuable
The printer is urged to inform the public that reports of a young Lady fleeing her husband in Scotland with jewels are untrue. It states she left all jewels at home, possessing only her watch and about twenty guineas in her purse, with no items of value carried away.
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Parmer
Thei
England
Husbands Bosworth
Heylin
London Evening Pof
S.ir
Scotland
Notice to Creditors of John Maire Estate
LL persons who have any demands on the estate of John Maire late of Gray's-Inn Esq deceased are desired to give immediate notice to Mr Kiernan at his Chambers in Coney-court Gray's-Inn London.
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Calais
Dunkirk
Newgate
Old Bailey Court of Justice
Robert Manning
Castle Baynard Ward
Piccadilly
Duke Street
St. James’s Street
Drury-lane
Timon
Athens
Henry John Parker, Bart
Tafton
Stratford On Avon
Lord Clarendon
Earl of Clinricarde
Warwickshire
Regulator
England
Townsend
Wilkes
Portmouth
Africa
Anderson
Stoke’s Bay
Shepherd
Chichester
Fallentine
Rotterdam
Wacester
London
Christ
Ana
Guernsey
Lancaster
Park
Dublin
John Maire
Gray’s-Inn
Kiernan
imConey-court
Parliament in Ireland Debates Address to His Majesty
Postscript reports a Tuesday session of the Ireland Parliament with dispatch of public business. The next day a long and warm Commons debate concerned the address of thanks to the king and to the Lord Lieutenant for the throne speech. The Court party met with strong support and opposition.
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Hofley
William Mayne
French
Flood
Prevost
Hutchinson
Monk Mason
England
Ireland
Hellen
Taft
Lucas
Huffey
Waller
Burke
Swan
Lord Townend
Lord Townsend Fall
Parliament
Lord Lieutenant's
Weddeblay
Commons
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Cambridge
Smith
Caius
Halifax
Trinity-hall
Law
Collignon
Payfe
Thackeray
King’s College
Turner
Pembroke-hall
Watson
Trinity College
Beadon
St. John's College
St. Paul
Lindrey
Guy Lindrey
Consol
India
London Evening Pott
Postscript
House of Commons
Freland
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