Auction of John Pickersgill estate at Ripon and Sharow
By order of the assignees of John Pickersgill, lotting firm goods, stock and freehold properties in Ripon, Sharow and Bishopton. Describes rooms, warehouses, and vast estates Badger Hall and related farms with tithes, barns, and out offices. Also includes live and dead stock, furniture and stock in trade to be sold across dates in November with viewings arranged by tenants and agents in London and York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel ‘Groseey
John
Ripon
John Pikersgill
Westgate
Badger Hall
Carthorpé
County of
York
Ripon Bedale
Thirth
Ald
Henry Rushton
John Wrigglesworth
Sol
Rawle
John Billing
Peranme
Twy
Weltgatt
Bishopton
Woodhouse
Sharow
Pic_ eersgill
Henry Atkinson
Thomas Carter
Henry Carry
London
Badger
Badger HalFe Fister
K. Adams
Markane
White Swan Inn
Bedale
Borough-bridge
Middlehaurs
Samuel Crosley
Petitalley
Coleman-street
Easy English Grammar and Spelling Book for Youth
A compact old spelling and grammar primer by Clare of Griotham Ancolfshire printed in Patersnofter-row and Ave Mary-dane, presenting orthography general and a concise grammar in verse form with exercises and fables to aid memory The plan aims to imprint natural word construction and ease hesitation in reading aloud for youth
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Son Clare
Griotham
Ind
Ancolfshire
Hawes, Clarke
Collins
R. Baldwin
B. Law
Urethral Excrescences and Painful Obstructions Cited
A dated medical notice describes urethral excrescences and painful obstructions. It lists various remedies and mentions prices, vendors, and several names associated with the treatment. The text reflects 19th or early modern medical advertising language and cautions about ineffectiveness.
Ladies Magazine and horse medicine for sale 1772
The fragment lists an October 1772 issue of a ladies magazine with contents such as entertaining pieces, poetry, and memoirs. It also advertises prepared purging balls and powders for horses by William Radley, detailing prices and uses for stomach purges, diuretic balls, worm balls, cordial saffron balls, fever powders, and cough powders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ioo
Genuwen
S-Kipferz
Jaho Wilkes
Mayer
Hugion
Lady’s Magazine
England
John Wilkes
Pope
Odtos Bere
Marria
London
G. Robinson
William Radley
Gray’s Frigate
Holborn
Vast fires and mutinies ripple through empire notes
The report cites a major fire burning 200 houses in a town, suspected arson tied to revolutionary aims. Turki sh troops relocated, deserters clash with lines near the capital, with casualties and arrests. Other items cover Poland partitions, Russian actions, and regulatory debates on port duties and monastic suppressions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Flinders
Genstagtinaple
Visir
Pacha
Asia
WarsJaw
Poland
Prussia
Austria
Russia
Warsaw
Lukawski
Eilip
Ermeland
Hamburgh
Heffe Caffel
Brandebourg Schwedt
Feedor Orlaw
Bately
Ratifben
Bohemia
Fenice
Aarhus
Jacobsen
Drackenburg
Royal notices and incidents from London and beyond
Old London Gazette items report a new writ for New Windsor to replace the deceased Richard Tonton, royal blessings on Edward of Windsor, and a Lord Mayor's water procession. Reports cover fires in Poland, cargo losses near Eggerzund, ship detentions, a St James Palace alarm, a purse theft, highway robberies, pardons, and a corn market snapshot with prices. Also listed are court appointments, knighthoods, and various bankruptcies and official notices from oct 31 to nov 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kew
Edward
Clerk of the Crown
New Windsor
Richard Tonton
Elc
Mercers Company
Iris
Ponnania
Poland
Hague
Prince Galliczin
Gregory Orlow
Quebec
Canada
Cranstoun
Madagascar
Dorothy Sophia
Steinkraus
London
Colbérg
Eggerzund
Norway
Galway
Bristol
St. James’s Palace
Talien
Poultry Compter
Lord Mayor
St. Michael’s Alley
Cornhill
Tottenham Town
John Browning
George Burt
Park-Street
Thomas Simkins
Corn Exchange
London Gazette
St. James’s, OG
Sidney Stafford Smythe
St. James's
Robert Lord Clive
Kingdom of Ireland
England
Wales
Berwick Upon Tweed
William Lowndes
Warsaw
Higue
Berlin
Glaffer of Henneberg Invents Protective Varniish Test
A physician named Glaffer from Henneberg devised a varnish based protective method to prove its virtue. Wooden huts were built, two coated with varnish and one uncoated. The varnished structures survived while the unvarnished hut burned, demonstrating the varnish’s claimed preservative effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adainihveten Spat ‘Glaffer
Hennebérg
Edinburgh Farmer Wounds Workers Over Harvest Dispute
A Scottish farmer near Jedburgh confronted workers disputing harvest methods, seized hooks, and was wounded when a colleague pulled one hook free. He died from blood loss shortly after. At Mount Charlie a marriage linked Wm Campbell to Sally Cunningham. Obituaries note Sir Thomas Mundays's death and a macaroni fashion oxford at an assembly. Market prices show stock and India bond quotes. London weather and shipping prices listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Jones, Esq
Yetterday
Lincoln
Henry Barpar
Ar Bonatpead
Jofraa
Edinburgh
Jedburgh
Fom Lauder
Mount
Charles
Fairield
Sally
Cunninghame
Boston
Oxford
Thomas Mundays
Exeter
Lord
Hay
Moftetouth
Edmunds
Mr. Edmunds
Vege table remedy advertised in venereal disease tract
A published dissertation touts a vegetable remedy named Velno’s Vegetable as a specific for venereal disease. It claims widespread success and lists sales locations in Ludgate Street Haymarket Clerkenwell and Dr Burrows’ house with authorities cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lal
Velno
G. Keadlly
Ludgate-street
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