Notable Military Career and Local 18th Century News
An impassioned 18th century chronicle outlines a military career from Dettingen through promotion to Major-General, service under Wade and the Duke of Marlborough, and later roles in Parliament and estate succession. It also reports local incidents, fires, drownings, arrests, and civic actions in Whitecross Street, along with shipwrecks, court appointments, and market prices for fish and corn, ending with a remarkable note on a cabbage bed pea yielding 1172 folds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dettingen
Marschal Wade
Duke of Law
Headon
Hall
Earl
Whitecross-street
Corporation of London
Anthony Bacon
Aylesbury
Clare Market
Haddock
Cate
Princess Royal Packet
M‘donagh
Dieppe
Brighthelmistone
Dunkirk
Drares
Oyal
Peter Gillier
Thomas Barrow
Chiswick
William Ruffel
Dulwich
Abraham Lawley
Rotherhithe
Powell
Thames-street
Emmett
Foster-lane
Chelsea Water-works
Wondon-bridge
Sarah Johnson
High Holborn
Dr. Monro
Jermyn-street
St. James
Ratcliff Highway
Mr. Flemings
Newgate-street
Royal Exchange
Bridewell
Hicks’s Hall
Poplar
Covent-Garden
Tower-hill
Kirby- Street
Hatton Garden
Joseph Girdler
Hanover
Hildesheim
Lower Holloway
Highgate
Liovb
Lisbon
Madrid
Bermudas
George Town
Ralph Izard
Porto Rico
Gibraltar
Algiers
Cape Finisterre
Newfoundland
Plymouth
Hunt
South America
Lancaster
London
Bedford Borough MPs Offered for Next General Election
To the Mayor Aldermen Freemen and Inhabitants of Bedford we announce our unanimous approval as representatives for Parliament at the next general election. We seek your votes and support in Bedford Sept 22 1767 with thanks and obligation. Hereford and Cornwall letters follow from 1767 urging continued service for the county and town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Alban
S. John Radcliffe
St. Alban’s
Art Farthul
Villiers
Ricuarn Sutton
Cornwall
Bodmin
Klein
Rodinth
ST. Aubyn
McLesworth
Bedford
Hereford
Nort Ham
Gantleman
James Lancnam
Northampton
Osborne
Geo
Bripces Rooney
Somerset
Bridgwater
C. K. Tynne
Hipisrey Coxe
Essex
Chelmsford
Manning-Street
Ott
Mr. Meres
Commons of
England
Commons
IcwcRaMmus
London Evening-Post
Meres
London
Peice
Jefferys
Chamberlain
Alderman Beckford
Cornhill, O
London Evening Polit
Canterbury
Thucydides
Election notices and political letters from 1767 Norhampton and Somerset
A collection of 1767 letters and notices to electors in Norhampton and Somerset, praising steadiness from supporters, urging votes for candidates and criticizing procedural irregularities. Includes commentary on representation rights, public meetings, and a protest against perceived parliamentary manipulation.
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Borough of
Manet
John Radcliffe
Richard Vernon
Thomas Harton
Andeethies
Fotey
Jun
Coarices Emeys Tynre
Coxe
Chichester
London Evening Post
Merges
Bath
Wilkes
Dr. Douglas
Carolina
M. D’eun
Count Guerchy
Duke of York
J. Almon
Burlington House
Piccadilly
John Wilkes