Conflicting Mediation and European Succession Talks Rise
Extracts describe Geneva unrest as Zurich and Bern mediation stalls. Reports from Tunis and The Hague note Beys, Arabs, and Baalis in Cairo, with siege hopes fading. Juliers and Bergue succession debates reemerge with Prussia Saxony ties, while South Sea prices and financials fluctuate amid global tensions.
Financial notes from a historical ledger excerpt
The fragment lists securities and interest terms such as 1 to 1 ditto, Mine Adventure Shares 61, Seven per Cent, Emperor's Loan 113 3 qrs, Five per Cent, Exchequer Orders with qr per Cent Prem, Three per Cent, Lottery Tickets 10, and related rates like 18th and 6d. The text reads as a catalog of bond and stock prices and coupon details with shorthand monetary marks common to old ledgers.
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South Sea
New South Sea
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London
Freehold Estate with Hall and 600 Acres in Stafford
For sale a freehold estate near Betty in Staffordshire comprising about 600 acres including a 30 year old hall, gardens, canal, orchards, nursery, offices, outbuildings and a central dairy house. Leases depend on single lives. annual income around 2941 with anticipated rent around 3881 on lease expirations. Further details from Mr Henry Bostock at the Pack Lion and Seven Stars, Bedford Street, Covent Garden.
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Bakerly
Betty
Stafford
Henry Bostock
Bedford-street
Coventardch
Reading Races Purse Events at Reading Heath
Reading races set purses on Bull-Marsh Heath with heats for horses never winning above 20. Titles include a 30 pound purse on Sept 22 and a 25 pound purse for real hunters under 20 hands, with entry and attendance rules at Reading Mitre Tavern and Town Hall assemblies.
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Reading
Bull-Marsh Heath
Old Reading
Mitre
N.B
Tretham Wells Public House for Let in Surrey
To be LETT and entered upon immediately at an easy Rent Tretham Wells in Surrey a convenient public house with stables and all conveniences four miles from Croydon and six miles from London with mineral waters supplying hospitals and regarded as an excellent remedy in many cases Goods of the said house are to be sold to any person taking the house Enquire at the said house or at Mr Shuckburghs grocer White Marts in Pater-noster Row
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Tretham Wells
Surrey
Croydon
London
Coopers Company Lands Offered For Winter Feud At Danbury Essex
At Mortimer Hall near Danbury in Essex to be feued this winter. Sixteen acres of sixteen years growth plus thirty and twenty acre cops of about fourteen and twelve years growth stand as Hornhin and Birch timber. For details contact Mr Webber Clerk of the Company at Coopers Hall in Basinghall street.
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Mortimer Hall
Danbury
Essex
Birch, &c
Company of Coopers
Webber
Coopers Hall
Basinghall-street
Lost Bank Note Note to Samuel Cranmer Reward Offered
A bank note dated the same day or August last payable to Samuel Cranmer for one hundred pounds is lost. The finder should surrender it to Meff. Hoares and Arnold bankers in Fleet-street or to Mr Blackwell at Blackwell's Coffee-house Well-Court Queen Street Cheapside. Ten guineas reward will be paid with no questions asked. Payment stopped at the Bank.
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Geneva
Zurich
Berne
Tunis
Kiffe
Ali
Baalis
Banfis
Cairoan
Mecca
Hague
Juliers
Bergue
Berlin
Saxony
M. Luticius
Prussia
Elector Palatine
Prince of
Sultzbach
States General
Hall Jatt
Samuel Cranmer
Hoares
Arnold
Fleet-treec
Blackwell
Well-Court
Queen-street
Cheapside
London Grocers Deny False Advertisements Claim
A dated advertisement from London grocers defends against claims of selling sugar tea and other goods at unfairly low prices. It asserts that leading London grocers, not quacks, have always offered fair prices and will continue to do so. The note warns readers about impostors calling themselves fair traders and accuses one advertiser of fraud related to revenues.
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London
The Syren and musical miscellany collected songs
An aged publication listing The Syren second edition with added songs and a collection of four hundred and thirty celebrated English songs. Advertises venues and editors, including Betcersworth Hitch J Osborn Hodges, with references to Musical Miscellany and a medical treatise on fever.
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Syrens
Betcersworth
Hitch
Red-Lion
J. Osborn
J. Hodges
London-Budge
Sir David Hamilton
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