Trials and trials and fraud in old London crimes
An old newspaper record details several crimes and trials. It notes a captain and a man found guilty, a Bowers acquittal, and a harsh sentence of Newgate for the convicts. It also mentions plans to reestablish Treason, a letter to encourage recruitment, and bail debates for murder charges. Additional items describe two sharpers at Ballard’s, a misused Guinea, and a medical account of a country fever with remedies and prognoses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pite
Mufyuctedhz
Bowers
Newgate
O Neal
Dillon
Philipsbourg
London
Flanders
Middlesex
Sessions House
Baily
Roger Arnold
Isanc Burridge
Sarah Pembroke
Canilon
Hicks’s Hall
Joseph Parker
Thomas Jones
Ballard
Albemarle- Street
Justice Ward
Gatehouse
Westminster
Rose Widney
Mount of
Cornwall
Diseases and Casualties This Week in 18th Century Ledger
A weekly ledger lists diseases with counts such as consumption 64 fever 57 small pox 49 and teething 26, and casualties including drownings 1 and accidental falls 3. Burial totals reach 528 with 328 burials this week showing a decrease of 55. Market figures follow for South Sea stock and various annuities and bonds, with bank and insurance quotes and weeks’ closing values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
York Buildings
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Assurance
Welch
S. — South Sea
S. Ditto
Birk
Advertisement for Mr. Wooting Works in London Post
Notice states an advertisement for Mr Woot .STON’s works appeared in the London Evening Post Tuesday. it claims T Astley in St Paul’s Churchyard did not consent to or know of the insertion. Witness my hand S Nevill.
Lost gold cafe watch with chain and keys in Bedfordshire
On August 26 in the forenoon a plain gold single cafe watch by Georgé Graham number 5414 went missing near Chicksand in Bedfordshire between Lodge and Rowney-Watten Road towards Shefford. A gilt metal chain with three swivels, a watch-key, a steel key, and a red seal were attached. A reward of five guineas is offered by Mr George Graham of the Three Crowns Fleet Street London or Mr Gilbert Norman at Chickland Abbey for safe return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheker
Georgé Graham
Chicksand
Bedford
Rhose
Rowney-Watten
Shefford
George Graham
Fleettreet
London
Gilbert Norman
Chickland Abbey
Stolen Mare Near Rumford Offers Guinea Reward
A black mare missing from Fidler's Hall Rumford on the 14th instant. She stands about hands high with a bald face, two wall eyes, two white feet behind, and a cue. Reward of one Guinea to any who returns her to Bourne in Rumford or Buckley at the George Alehouse in Fenchurch Street. no questions asked.
Gold Watch Lost in Surrey Road Way Offering to Apollo
Aug 30 1734 a gold watch with maker Scars and a gold chain mysteries. A cornelian seal displays a creveron between three lozenges and a martin crest. Reward six guineas for return to Mr John Curgheys Galdfmith Ship Fleet Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton
Stretham
Surrey
Cafe
Four Seasons
Apollo
Martin
John Curgheys
Galdfmith
Fleet-street
Robert Hull Terrelle Dismissed From Sign of the Lamb
The record notes Robert Hull Terrelle removed from the Woollen Drapery shop near the New Church in Strand to the Stallioners doors nearer Temple Bar. The sequence hints at a movement between urban shopfronts and market entries in late period London commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Hull
Terrelle
Ehh Strand
Temple-Bar
Noted sale of varied ready made apparel at Covent Garden and Bow Street
Notice records prices for drugzec Lizathy and Darcy Suits in three sizes with livery suits at 4 and 41.10s, colored and black cinch suits at 5 and 9.ros. Also horsemen's great coats 20s each morning gowns calimancoe 30s blue cloak-kags 16s blue roquelaurs superfine black cloth 15s per yard. Goods offered at the Golden Balls in Great Hart Street upper end of Bow Street Covent Garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drugzec
Lizathy
Darcy
Fashionalle
Ros
Great Hart
Bow-street
Covent Garden
Expostory Notes on the New Testament Weekly Edition
Publication notice for Last Saturday’s issue XL of William Burkitt's Expostory Notes with Practical Observations. The work explains the Sacred Text and offers Jesus and apostles patterns for private reading. Tenth edition aims for universal usefulness, five sheets for sixpence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Burkitt
Jesus
J. J
P. Knapton
Ludgate-street
D. Midwinter
R. Robinson
C. Rivington
St. Paul’s Churchyard
A. Bettestoorth
C. Hitch
J. Osborne
T. Longman
J. Batley
Paternoster Row
J. Downing
Bartholomew -Clof
J. Pemberton
Fleet-street
R. Ford
R. Hert
Poultry
F. Clay
Temple-Bar
A. Ward
Little Britain
T. Ward
E. Wickteed
Inner Temple Lane
Clarke
Duck Lane
T. Hatchert
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Basingstoke
Oliver Herne
Charles Duke of Bolton
Wimbleton
Kingston
Croydon
Hopkins
Lombard-street
William Gollins
Wimbleryn
F. BurFier
Soc
Fefu
W. Hinchliffe
Madam de Gomez
Osmini
Offtavo
England
William
Anne
D. Browns
Black Swan
Charles I
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