Fragmented 18th Century Gazette Narrative excerpt
A long excerpt describes a public execution scene with a condemned man claiming absolution, requests lodging, and bids farewell to a Sheriff. It shifts to foreign dispatches mentioning Warsaw politics, the Ottoman Porte, Bavarian troops, and Mirandola, plus notes on King Stanislaus, Walpole, and Imperial ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Leppington
Mr. Boyle
Sheriff
Makkin
Porte
Starost Siedriecky
Constantinople
Rhine
Rome
Ceragia
Calabria
Bologna
Mirandola
Pichitigona
Leghorn
Duke of Montemar
Count of
Konigsberg
Stanislaus
Walpole
Imperial Hussars
N.S
Prince of Conti
Mantua
Troy
Modena
Duke of
Lorrain
Anne of Hanover
James II
House of Brunswick
War era notes from a British gazette and market update
Reports from Genoa Paris and the Hague note courtly moves during the war and a potential accommodation with Hamburg ships. Denmark Madrid and Cadiz dispatches mention flotilla movements and Canaries-bound orders. Wheat barley oats prices Bristol activity in September 6 political church appointment in Bovey Tracy. Dr Phillips tour promises medical feats and amputations cited. Stock market figures show South Sea and Bank securities with various quotings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genoa
Modena
Duke of Orleans
Paris
Netherlands
Hague
Holland
Denmark
Madrid
Cadiz
Canary Islands
Bristol
Whitehall
Samuel Dames
Bovey Tracy
Devon
Exeter
Samuel Maynard
Phillips
St. Fohn’s Lane
London
Olney Races at Olney Meadow Bucks Purse Details
A pair of races planned for September 24 and 25 at Olney Meadow Bucks. Purse ten guineas for horses under 14 hands, nine stone, best of three four mile heats, and purses twenty guineas for horses never having won more than forty pounds, ten stone, bridle and saddle included, best of three four mile heats. Entrance one guinea and a half. entries due September 26 at the Red Lyon. Three reputed running horses required. if insufficient entrants, entrance money returned. Smiths must subscribe five buttars to horse plating. Ball and ordinaries at nearby inns, ladies’ ball planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olney Meadow
County of Bucks
Red Lyon
Olney
Sale Advertisement for Lewes Shopkeeper’s Estate
Public notice announces sale by auction at two o clock in the afternoon on Saturday the 20th instant. The property and goods belong to Pee Pescufe late of Thomas Pilfold, shop keeper, of the Cliff by Lewes. The sale is to be conducted at the House of My, Smith at the Bear in the Cliff. The purchaser must bid to be the chef bidder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Bear
Clif
Pee Pescufe
Thomas Pilfold
Lewes
Steyning Downs Races Offer Two Royal Plate Meetings
Steyning Downs Sussex hosts three racing days from September 25 to 27 with purses of ten twelve and twenty guineas. Entries due seven days prior at the White Horse Steyning with Mr Edwards. half to one guinea at the post. Horses must meet age and weight restrictions. winners may be sold for specified sums. All races run under His Majesty's Royal Plates articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steyning
Steyding Downs
Sussex
Mr. Edwards
Cen Srone
Stray'd Grey Mare Missing Near Leak Lincolnshire
On Wednesday the 3d at about eight o'clock at night a light iron-gray mare, three years old, about 14 hands high, back'd and fat, was stolen from a stable belonging to Mr William Thornhill Cooper at Leak near Boston. A Guinea reward plus reasonable charges will be paid to anyone delivering the mare or giving notice leading to her recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Thornhill Cooper
Leak
Boston
Lincolnshire
Farm for let near Barnet in Middlesex
Lettings notice for a farm at South Mims in Middlesex three miles from Barnet seven from St Albans and thirteen from London containing about two acres of arable and sixty acres of meadow and pasture with a brick house a stable a brew-house and outbuildings in good repair hay and corn to be sold to the tenant at a reasonable valuation enquire of William Roberts Mim Hall Louth Mims Hertford or of Bostock Toller attorney in Hertford or John Sibley tallow chandler near Smithfield London bars for carriage to the great road
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michaelmas West
Mims
William Roberts
Mim-Hall
Louth
Bostock Toller
Hertford
John Sibley
Smithfield
London
N.B
For Sale: Camberwell Estate Sizable House and Grounds
Freehold estate in Camberwell Surrey offered for sale as part of the bankrupt estate of John Warner. Includes brick house stables brew-house substantial yard about three acres of garden ground with fruit trees and a canal water supply paddock and adjoining six acres, plus household goods and furniture. Inquiries to Alsop Woodward Matters and Metcalf at noted offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camberwell
County of
Surrey
John Warner
Thomas Alsop
Woodward
George-street
Foster-Lane
Edward Matters
St. Martin’s-Lane
Cannon-street
John Metcalf
South Sea House
Threadneedle-street
Discourse on Newton Fluxions and Ratio Methods
This Day is published price 18 6d a discourse by Benjamin Robins FRS on the nature and certainty of Sir Isaac Newtons methods of fluxions and of prime and ultimate ratios. It lists Newtons works available from W Innys and R Manby at the West End of St Pauls with titles including Principia Mathematica Opticks Lectiones Optice and Observations on Daniel and the Apocalypse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Isaac Newton
Benjamin Robins
F.R.S
W. Innys
R. Manby
St. Paul’s
Daniel
John
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South Sea
New South Sea
Rhalfi Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange
York
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