Noble Manners and Military Grip in 18th Century Letters
A London Evening Post annal contains praise of Sir Robert Walpole’s private virtue and public conduct, recounting Doctor Atwell and Doctor Conybeare's pleas for neglected scholars, then shifts to critique of Ministry edicts, troop quarters, and rising prices in towns like Trowbridge, arguing a planned arbitrary rule across Britain to suppress liberty.
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Robert Walpole
Doctor Atwell
Talbot
Doftor Rundle
Atwell
Durham
Robert
Exeter College
Oxford
Conybeare
Deen
Christchurch
Prince of Orange
Con
Aifl
Reynolds
University of Oxford
Iuies
Suiter
Reynolls
Eton College
Soldiers Quartering Sparks Discontent in Trowbridge
A London Evening Post reader from Trowbridge criticizes the Ministry for placing three companies of foot there while larger nearby towns lack garrisons. He accuses ministers of spying on critics and wrongly burdening towns, promising to prove the charge.
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Trowbridge
Anecdote of Wilkes and unpaid mayoral coach subscription
A London Evening Post item recounts Aldermen probing the mayoral coach subscription. Wilkes, present in the council chamber, dodged payment as bailiffs loomed. When pressed, he said he would pay when Sam Sheriff arrived, delaying the debt until his attorney intervened. The subscription remains unpaid at the time. An anecdote on Squire Morgan’s border tour follows.
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Wilkes
Kir
Sam Sherif
Squire Morgan
State Lottery 1771 Cha s and Co Offer Advantageous Tickets
I CHARDS and Co inform the public they have secured from a gentlemen's society the numbers of tickets in the present State Lottery with better general and capital prize chances than others. Tickets and shares are sold at low prices with favorable allotment, by half round to sixty-fourth shares and correspondents may have tickets sent to any part on London terms. Tickets registered at 6d each, speedy account of success, drawing begins Nov 18, not two blanks to a prize, letters post paid.
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Trowbridge
Hawke’s-Eye
Ichards and Co
Ear Bartlett
Hatton Garden
Holborn
N.B
London
Charles Town
Minerva
Leith
Wilmington
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Virginia
England
Private Contract Sale of Eight Freehold Brick Houses
ROBERT F CLAVERING offers eight substantial brick houses with yards in St. Matthew Bethnal Green and two adjoining plots totaling 3 goods 7 perches 6 yards. Rent 11 pounds 15s plus a ground rent 128 per annum, term 63 years from midsummer. Viewings near Whitechapel road plan available and terms arranged by applying to CLAVERING before 11 am or after 3 pm at Cumberland Street Shoreditch.
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Robert F Clavering
St. Matthew
Bethnal-green
Whitechapel-road
Robert Clavering
Lye
Cumberland- Street
Shoreditch
N.B
Public notices and courtly travels from a distant shore
An eclectic 18th century column reports on high society visits in Cornwall and Worcestershire, royal preparations for illuminated gardens, and intrigues of town liberty. It includes dispatches from Madras, reflections on English law and allegiance, and local marriages and curiosities shaping a broad imperial panorama.
Bank Stock and Annuity Prices in Market Report
Market notes show bank stock quotes and annuities with fractions. Confol bonds around 7 1 8, 3 8ths. 4 per cent 1726 and 1753 long annuities listed. India Stock near 219 to 218 1 half, Scark Sea and Old New Annuities cited. Navy and Victualling Bills, Exchequer Bills, Lottery Tickets priced with fractional bids.
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India
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Canbury
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Fale
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Beaconsfield
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Halburne
Edmund Waller
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Stowe
Duke of Cumberland
Orth
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Berwick
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Deacon
Newcastle
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Trinity House
Newcasstle
France
Dover
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Richmond
Paris
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Madras
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Flint
T Anjour
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Basque Road
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Jane
Chapman
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Pratz
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pRcasun
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St. Paul’s Church-yard
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Temple
Dumfries
Scotland
Earl of
Deal
S.t
Dolly
Pinchot
Susannah
Dobbie
Seaford
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