Brackley Borough writ notice and portents of royal moves
In London on Monday September 16 the House of Commons Speaker signals a new writ for Brackley to replace the late Robert Wood and mentions a forthcoming Duke of York title for the Bishop of Ornabourg. Reports also cover a Jamaica voyage, a deadly plague in Smyrna, an island quake in Hispaniola, and various local notices including a court incident and racing results at Abingdon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Crown
Brackley
Robert Wood
Ornabourg
Duke of York
Knight of the Bath
St. James, Surman
Jamaica
London
South Carolina
Levant
Mr. Greigh
Smyrna
Scio
Spiritoff
Micone
Elfinear
Harrison
Hull
Hogland
New York
Hispaniola
Boston
New-England
Davis
Nichola Mole
Port Au Prince
John Wilkes
Richard Ruft
Minories
Towers Hill
Abingdon
Sol
Capt. Strode
Little Joe
Duke of Cumberland
Sulphur
Mr. Sparrow
Broth
Mr. Brown
Whirligig
Prize Fighter
Mr. Bailey
Lord Offory
Foundling
Mr. Warren
Mary Murphy
Hannah Carr
Newgate
Jackson
State Lottery Notice from ICHAFDS and Co
ICHAFDS and Co inform the public from their old State Lottery Office near Hatton Garden that they have procured from a calculating society the numbers of the tickets with better chances of prizes. They offer tickets and shares at low prices with advantageous terms and prompt accounting. Drawing begins Nov. 18 with tickets registered at 6d each and letters replied to.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rooksbank
Ruddle
Castle-alley
Threatmeedle-street
Royal Exchange
London
Brocksbank
Rudslel
Ichafds and Co
Bartlett’s
Hatton Garden
Holborn
N.B
Anecdote of Mills S Daughters and Boarding School Curiosity
A letter to the Printer of the London Evening Post laments pride among the gentry and warns against corrupting infant minds. It recounts Mills S, daughter of Lord S, at a famed distant boarding-school where peers question her birth due to plain looks. She answers bluntly to eager inquiries about her origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mits S
Miss Mifse
London
Mills S
Bloom
Mil S
Voley
Auction and notices on Ham Common and church society
An auction sale on the premises notes a copyhold estate at Ham Common near Petersham Surrey with a large dwelling and gardens. Viewing Friday the 19th, catalogues at the auction site and at Stel. Cangford's. Also a Society of London notice for a meeting at Half Moon Tavern Gracechurch Street on the 19th for admission of Protestant members, with life annuity terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Canbury
Petersham
Ard
Neat -Gosgold
Garnen
Stel
Cangfords
Covesy-Darden
Achaaker
Marlborough
Tradt
Créace
Long ‘Acre
London
Spackman
Cresr- Chaps
Hill
Creace
N. B
Birchall
Queen Square
Bath
Half Moon Tavern
Gracechirch-street
N.B
Berridge
Sozady
Southwark
Goff
New Hermitage-street
Wapyiac
Coleman-ttre
Hill-street
Berkley-square
Rysseed
F. Newbery
St., Pauls Church-yard
New-street
Broad-firest
Camnaby-marker
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Elizabeth Hipfey
John Duon
Jame Glover
John Cattle
John Colvill
Joseph Constable
John Jones
William Ingram
Paddington
William Bale
Tottie
Henry Dillon
Southampton-treet
Bloomsbury
Susannah Tucker
Argyle Buildings
Glasgow
William Sepine
Mr. Mottershead
Brazen Nose College
Oxford
Alcester
Warwickshire
Robert Houlton
Gritton
Wilts
Mr. Lewis
Deptford
Francis Griffiths
Hoxton
Mr. Norris
Soho Square
Solomon Jacobs
Houndsditch
Cavendith Square
Gambier
Admiral Gambier
Duke of Portland
Charles Street
Berkley Square
Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
Adrian Stockdale
Clapham
Mr. Walker
Knightsbridge
Patrick Kennedy
Country
New S
the &Il
William Strachan, Bart
Deal
Seaford
Polly
Rainer
Grace
Grigg
Bristol
Riendship
Carvin
Watford
Coap Cruizer
Wind N. N. W
Robert Pigott
Crown Inn
St. Ives
Roughton
Papworth St. Aghes
Hartington
Houghton
St. “Ives
William Freeman
Robert Rignall
Groods
Ditte
John Fullard
Manoc
Sr. II SS
Huntingdon
Simon Okins
Croxton
Sabai &c
Ewe
Croxton-field
Totland Green
Ditto
Eaton Socan
Creamer
McGee. Walker
Eaton
Thomas Butcher
T Caple
Bedford
Magazion &E
Hicore
Mandane
Cyrus
Ferro Music
Dr. Ane
Francis Blyth
Royal Excharge
Great Britain
Ireland
London Evening Post
ANF
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