Fire destroys barns and outbuildings in swift blaze
Report from Salisoury on September 30 describes a rapid fire that consumed seven diverlike horses and barns, with occupants barely saving goods and some narrowly escaping death. Sixteen couples of fowls and a leg were burned. On Monday Laft arrived at Hamble near Southampton aboard a lobster-smack with a monstrous fish claim, said to be five tons and yielding eight hogsheads of oil.
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Salisoury
Hamble
Southampton
Cully
Royal Visitors and Royal Naval Preparations in London
London dispatches recount Princess Amelia visiting Navestock Essex and returning to Cavendish Square while the Duke of York travels from Nice to Calais via a long inland route. Notes cover royal baptisms planned at Berkley Square, court communications, and a statue restoration at the Royal Exchange. Additional items include naval movements at Spithead, political news from Berlin and Warsaw, and several local notices of funerals, fires, and court appointments.
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London
Amelia
Earl of Waldegrave
Navestock
Essex
Cavendish Square
Duke of York
England
Nice
Calais
Antibes
Aix
Avignon
Valence
Vienne
Lyons
Villefranche
Macon
Tournies
Chalon
Dijon
Langres
Chaumontr
St. Dizier
Chalons Au Champagne
Reims
Laon
St. Quentin
Peronne
Arras
St. Omer
Calak
Duke of Ancaster
Berkley Square
Sir John Barnard
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Royal Exchange
Nicholas Godscall
Guildford
Leadenhall Market
Wandsworth
Hackney
Lloyd’s
City of London
City of Westminster
Constantinople
Vienna
Sultarefs
Berlin
Poniatowski
Poland
Stanislaus the
Warsaw
Culm
Cracow
Chatham
Sheerness
Portmouth
Africa
Spithead
Thunderer
His
Britannia
Sandwich
Arrogant
PLEAS FOR LEOMINSTER LAND LEASE SALE NOTICE
Purseant to an Order of the Court of Exchequer, by Publick Aion, at the Three Horse Shoes Inn Leominster, on Friday the 12th of October, two to five in the afternoon. A lease of Moyx land near Leominster, estate of Thomas Pennie. Leasehold valued at 8d per year for twenty one years, with three parcels of freehold intermix’d and to be sold at the same time. Enquiries to Mr. Srhart Gray's Inn or Mr. Francis Browne Leominster.
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St. Thomas West
Cannion’s
Chesham
Amersham
County of Rocks
London
Hedworth
Thames
Wearhouse
John Ee
Chenies
Che
Court of Exchequer
Thomas Harris
Leominster
Hereford
Moyx
Thomas Pennie
Windsor
Michaelinzs
Thomas Caldwall
Srhart
Gray’s Inn
Francis Browne
N.B
Francis Browns
Vast Property Sales in Hereford and Radnor Auction
Auctions of multiple estates and leases from the late bankrupt James Lloyd Harris near Hay on Wye and Kington, Radnorshire, include Freehold holdings at Clirow and Llowes, a bridge lease over the Wye, Moor Estate life interest, Buttocks Mitts leasehold, adjacent lands near Kington, Shobdon and Charley Meadow, with various terms from 21 years to life interests. Assignees and solicitors invite inquiries for details and viewing in Breconshire, Radnorshire, and Hereford.
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Chrow Mountain
Hay
Breconshire
Lroywn Pen- Deryn
Lloney Farm
Carnarvon
Leslee
Lyonsha
Hereford
James Lloyd Harris
William Dykes
William Phillipps
Alfo
Buttocks Mitts
Kington
John Parry
Luc
Sholxton
Downing
Chancery Lane
Archibald
Presteign
Richard Price
Knighton
Radnorshire
A Fragment of a Churchill Poem in Secret Edition
Fragmentary lines praise Prime Minister Churchill and his poems for patriots. The text mocks loyalists and laments treachery while urging readers to endure and feel the steel of the nation’s resolve. The piece references political betrayal and a demand for steadfast support of strong leadership.
Character of King James I in a London Postscript
A 17th century critique portrays James I as the reverse of Elizabeth I, favoring Scots, lavishing public funds while greedily private, tolerating papists, promoting luxury, and persecuting dissent. It laments monopolies, impositions, and corrupt judges, calling him the weakest prince on the English throne.
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James I
James
Elizabeth
Spain
Walter Raleigh
Palatine
Times
Bribery and Venality in Government Debates
The London Evening Post laments that calls of “no new corruption” recur when bribery accusations arise. It notes ministerial defenders claim corruption existed under prior administrations and that venality is said to be a long standing necessity for governance.
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The
London Evening Post
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