Officers Returning Home With The Fleet Amid Wounds And Illnesses
A dated report lists officers returning with the fleet due to wounds and sickness. Names include Colonel Wolfe, Captains Cotterell Beaufort Balfour Murray Adair and Shadwell. Casualty tallies cover diseases aged many, with counts for drowning fever and convulsions, and multiple fatalities. Financial notes show South Sea stock trends and various bonds and bank figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolfe
Cotterell
Beaufort
Regiment of
Fraser
Robinson
Balfour
Murray
Cochran
Adair
Shadwell
South Sea
Bank
Fadia
Mahon Bank
Royal Exchange Assurance
G. Tondon Ditro
India
Losnos
Lost Banknote Ad: 100 Pound Bill 1741 Reward
A bank note for 100 pounds dated 26 Aug 1741, payable to Meff Pepys and Hollinsworth, vanished between Aldgate and Jewin Street. If recovered by Meff Smith of Cockfhurce or Notary Thomas Bockings near the Royal Exchange, a ten guinea reward is offered with no questions. Last advertisement. payment was stopped at the bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldgate
Jewin‘Street
Pepys and
Hollinsworth
Elias Simes
Smith
Cockfhurce
Thomas Bockings
Notary-Publick
Royal Exchange
N.B
Goldsmiths Trade Deception Warns Publick Buyers
Notices warn against Decoys and Importions in gold plate sales by John Hopkins in Fleet Street. Reputable workmen and low prices are used to lure buyers, who are warned that engraved coats of arms will be erased before resale. No credit offered or required in any transaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hopkins
Fleet-street
Fleet-Bridge
Stolen Mare Missing near Stow Gloucestershire
Stolen or stray mare described as dark brown five years old fifteen hands high with a nicked tail white hairs behind ears and nose chain rope. Reward offered and all charges paid to anyone reporting to Thomas Bond at the George Inn Stow for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Upper Swell
Stow
Gloucestershire
Thomas Bond
George Inn
Deserters From Coldstream Regiment Advertised in London
On August 31 1741 notices offer rewards for the capture of two deserters from the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards under the Duke of Foiliates. Thomas Spooner age 23 five feet nine inches wears a light colored waistcoat. Simon Hall age 24 five feet eight and three quarters wears a light coat and yellow waistcoat. Capt. Dodd at the Savoy London is the sought location for surrender within three months. Rewards include a Guinea reward and half reward by act of Parliament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank
John Waite
England
Auboever
Wake
Aia
Coldstream Regiment of Foot-Guards
Duke
Foiliates
Thomas Spooner
Little Brook
Lancashire
Simon Hall
Falcethrop
Lincolnshire
Dodd
Savoy
London
Great Britain
Letting Mansion-House at Bickencat Rutland
Estate to let at Lady nest or sooner in the Mansion-House at Bickencat Rutland in tenure of Thomas Orby Hunter Esq new built eight rooms stabling dovecot gardens and conveniences two miles from Stamford with grass ground and hunting packs nearby inquire William Godhall Elgac Tinwell Rutland or Trauweck Queen's Head Grey's Inn Lane or James Digby of Bourn Lincolnshire fox hounds buck hounds and harriers kept near the place
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Nest
Bickencat
County of
Rutland
Thomas Orby Hunter
Stamford
Lincolniire
William Godhall
Elgac Tinwell
Trauweck
Queen’s Head
Grey’s Inn Lane
James Digby
Bourn
Lincolnshire
N. B
For Let or Sell a Large House in Wells Somerset
A handsome riverside residence with a large garden storied with fruit trees, stable and coach-house, set at the upper end of the Liberty of St Andrew in Wells. Distances: 15 miles by water to Bath and equal to Bristol and Bridgewater. Enquiries to John Burland in Wells, Dr Bostock in Bath, Mr Henry Combe or Mr fake Combe in Bristol, or Edmund Brydges ironmonger London Sun against New Exchange Buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Andrew
Wells
Somersetshire
Bath
Bristol
Bridgewater
John Burland
Esgin Wells
Bostock
Henry Combe
Mi Fake Combe
Edmund Brydges
New
Exchange
theSerand
London
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Star Inn
Lewes
Sussex
Fames Butler
Deceas
Thomas Sergison
David Legros
Kensington, &c
Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham
the George
Kensington
Tyburn
Uxbridge
the Penn
Bagflot Heath
Red Lyon
Egham
Mathern
Chepstow
Monmouthshire
Moyns
Gourt
Stackhouse
Stephen Auffen
St Paul's Church- Yard
Queen’s Square
Ormond-Street
Matthews
Delafiela
Royal Bed
Streatham
Surrey
Streatham Wells
Suesday
London Magazine
A. Hirtius
T. Quinrius
C. Plinius Cecilius
M. Agrippa
Cn. Domicius Calvinus
L. Piso
Robert Walpole
I. Astley
Ibis
Plalo
Vania
D. Miowinter
R Ware
C. Rivington
A. Ward
J. and
P. Kapron
T. Longman
Rtreet
C. Hirch
Austen
J. Wood
J. Pemberton
Simon Patrick
D. D
Ely
Aluf
Father Calmer
Samuel D’oyly
A. M
John Colfon
Ony
Judces, RuTa, Samuel
Samuel
Kirure
Curomides
Azra
Nehemtse, Esther
Sim I
Patrick
D.D
Evy
D. Midwinter
R. Ware
P. Knapton
Alexanser
Grupen
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