London notices and appointments from a historic issue
Fragmentary London notices record political appointments with Lord North era figures, church marriages, town corridor developments, ship arrivals, and local crime. It mentions Charles Jenkinson and Geo Cooke, charity school changes at St Andrew Holborn, planned New Bridge road works, Royal Exchange repairs, a Bengal ship arrival, marriages in St George the Martyr and St George's Bloomsbury, and various obituaries and robberies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Jenkinson
Geo. Cooke
Lord North
Jonesy
Royal Exchange
Inhaman
Richardson
India
Spithead
Bengal
Memel
Whitehaven
Caithness
Carmarthen
Higgins
Duke of York
Bristol
St. George the Martyr
Queen-square
Andrew Richardson
Queens Street
Lincoln’s-Inn- Fields
Sally Harpur
New Ormondftreet
St. George's
Bloomsbury
Thomas Winterton
St. James’s-street
Mary Serrant
Little ‘Raffel-street
Wapping
Daniel Day
Hennault-Forest
Essex
Barking-churth
Hilliard
Benhilltrow
Moorfields
Thoriiing
John Towers
Piccadilly
Sarmecday
Carter
York Buildings
Strand
St. “Martin's Inche Fields
Nicholas-lans
Lombard-street
Joseph Hewatlon
Lang
Ari
Fox and Crown residents face transport and larceny cases
In Highgate hill dwelling Fox and Crown thirteen were sentenced for transportation, two convicted of petit larceny, and ten acquitted. Copenhagen reports state two Crown Engineers set to survey Elsinore fortifications. Brest letters note two thirds of Gorce garrison taken by sickness. Minorca residents plant olives hoping to rival Italian olive oil. Duke William cutter Field arrives at Penzance from a cruise. An arrest in Surrey for exporting hundreds of sheep to France. Prussian agents arrive to buy English hunters for Prussia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fox and Crown
Highgate-hill
Copenhagen
Crown
Elsinore
Brest
Gorce
Minorca
Italy
William Cutter
Penzance
Surry
France
Political canvass notes from 1767 county elections
A collection of election notices from 1767 in Cornwall Derby and Northampton describing men being nominated or approved to represent counties in Parliament. Letters express thanks for support, solicit votes, outline conduct after election, and reference public meetings and arranged canvassing across several towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devonshire
Devon
Exeter
Ames Hamlyn
Clovelly-Court
Oxfordshikks
Oxford
William Leowe Ct
Cowley
St. Alban’s
Villiers
Richard Sutton
Eleors
Sr. Alban’s
Cohn Radcliffe
Bridgwater
Hamble
ULC
K.fyfre
HrerskLey Coxe
Ott
Cornwall
Bodshin
Jodman
Tour
St. Aubyn
Molesworth
Bedford
Richard Vernon
Thomas Hatton
Northampton
James LancHam
Carvass
Geo
Osnporne
BaipcEes Ropdney
B.S
Dery
Hang
Derby
G. Cavendish
County of
Derry
Aving
Asee
Requet
Sondon
G. B. Clarks
Dialogue about a Borough election between a candidate and Hodge
An antiquated dialogue depicts a borough election scene with Mr. Hodge and a candidate. They discuss voting, favors, and promised provisions with playful mispronunciations and social satire. The exchange mocks political promises and rural livelihoods in a parliamentary context.
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London
Ee Gout Brass
Cade
Walters
Mary Hubbard
Chilwellstreet
Joseph Harvey
Richard Bitter
Jane Fisher
Millenery Ang
Othengoods, Chiya
Vitlhaos Sewardar Upy
David Lucas
Lloyd’s
William Seaber
Colchester
Havins
Montloanios
Joan Rapcirre
St. Alban’s, Sept. Ry
Kemeys Tynye
Coxe
Wen
Libery
Henry Harpur
Dexsy
Gaxrréwen
Jamal
G. B. Crarky
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Meres
Philocrates
London Evening Post
Mercys
Anglicus
Hodge
Mr. Hodge
Zhou
Measter