Long Letter from Madrid and London Gazette News
Reports from Cadiz and Mexico claim Spanish privateers captured six English merchant ships on the American coast. Letters from Madrid and Naples discuss royal plans, taxes on clergy, and a forthcoming marriage to the Electoral Bavarian princess. Also notes Baron de Neuhoff at Civita Vecchia and praise for Hutchinson's scholarly work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadiz
Mexico
America
Caminiec
Fraustadt
Poland
Choczim
Porte
Depos’d Vizir
Naples
Tuscany
Palatine
Bavaria
Paris
Metz
Madrid
Spain
Africa
Farinello
Chevalier
Sonora
Corodegrachi
Customs
Oran
Diseases and Casualties this Week and Market Notices
A weekly list records diseases and casualties including 52 year old Aged, Spear Aow 10g, 191 convulsions, 229 fever, 57 teeth, drownings in the River Thames, suffocation, and excess drinking. Totals show 861 burials with 417 males and 444 females, up 24 burials week over week. Also notes bread affize set by Lord Mayor and Aldermen dated 1737 for Thursday, with loaf weights and prices, plus stock market quotes for South Sea, Bank, Royal Exchange, and other securities and lottery tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames
Beales
St Olens the 13th Inftant Gelding Missing
A grey seven year old gelding of St Olen type, about hand and a half high, with white spots under the saddle and a wounded near hind hock, likely ridden away by a five nine man with ruddy complexion and blue coat. Reward two guineas plus charges. Notify Mr Edward Amhurst in Barming Kent or Mr Gelding at the George Inn Southwark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Olen
Edward Amhurst
Barming
Maidstone
Kent
Notice of Griffins closure and relocation to Biggleswade
It is reported that the Griffin in Amersham Bucks was shut up. This notice declares the report groundless and states the inn is now kept by John Culliford from the King's Arms Inn in Biggleswade Bed ford. It offers kingly reception and good entertainment for gentlemen and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ereas
Amersham
Bucks
John Culliford
King’s Arms-Inn
Bigleswade
Bedford
Also Mentioned on This Page
London Gazette
Hampton Court
Count de Cambis
Duke
Amelia
Caroline
Mary
Louisa
The
London Evening Post
Hutchinson
South Sea
Bank
Prem
India
Royal Exchange
Assurance
London
Ditco
Ditto
Mine Adventure
A. B
George’s Coffee-house
Devereux-court
Temple-Bat
Deer
Bishop Stortford
Bowyer
George Dance
Finsbury
Bath
Evans Thomas, and Company
Trim-street
Lisbon
Gallicia
Shepherd Street
Hanover Square
Daniel
Chancery-lané
Fleetstreet
N. B
England
Arthur Collins
R. Gosling
Mitre
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