Market News and Local Incidents at Windsor and London
Insurance of Black Friars bridge opening by mid summer. A bull arrives for Duke of Northumberland. Prices at Chester Market include ox beef three pence halfpenny and veal four pence. Mayors and dispensations noted for Ely and Buckingdon, Buckin ghamshire. Clergymen receive livings, marriages, and deaths recounted. Accidents near Reading and Farnborough. cricket match Richmond vs Kingston. fraud warnings in West End. bread weighing penalties and local thefts and punishments.
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Black Friars Bridge
Yvill
Duke of Northumberland
Chester
John Bates
Ely
High Wycomb
Bucks
John Jenkinson
Gillingham
Upberry
Kent
John Hotham
St. Leonard
Shoreditch
Northall
Middlesex
Thomas Johnston
Staines
Nancy, Bartholomew
Egham
Surry
Scotland
Paris
Charles Cecil Calvert
Augustus Calvert
Dublin
Roger Partin
England
Germany
Partin
Rumford
Matthew Woodward
New Broad-street
Jatt
Radley
Abingdon
Berks
John Stonhouse
St. Martin’s Lane
Mr. Campbell
Taylor
Reading
Hare and Hatch
Farnborough
College of Physicians
Warwick-lane
Westminster-hall
Richmond-green
Kingston Upon Thames
Kingston
Richmond
Batchelors
Wick-green
West End
Pious Country Parishioner and Religious Works Adverts
A 17th century catalogue advertises The Pious Country Parishioner and six more religious titles. It lists discount prices, binding options, and notes on works by bishops and clergymen including Thomas Greene and John Worthington.
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Connery
John Rivington
Bible and Crown
Paul’s Church-yard
Heaven
Hell
Thomas Greene
Ely
John Worthington
Lincoln
Hutton
Price
God
Bishop Burnet
Richard Kildeer
Bridey
Bath and Wells
Public critique on Lords nominating MPs for Parliament
A Postscript letter argues that Lords overruling popular choice undermines the Constitution by nominating MPs, warning that a House packed by Lords makes MPs servants of Lords, risking aristocratic rule unless domination ends. The writer urges republic adherence and cites a borough with a noble insisting on nominating both seats. Pro REPUBLICA.
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London Evening Post
Commons
England
Juhn Lord
House of Commons
Lords
Pacey
Corporation
Impassioned View On Elections And Voltaire Censure
A London Evening Post reader laments election corruption and bribes as a fashionable folly, urging Prudence and honour in Parliament. The correspondent Canditus rebukes Fustitia for accusing Voltaire of atheism without citing sources and defends cautious, fair critique of authors.
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London
Meres
Pegard
C. Prudentia
Evening Pott
de Voltaire
Voltaire
Mons. de Montesquieu
Germany
Wolfius
Fuftitia
Candidus
Urgent plea for poor woman seeks quick legal aid
A reader requests compassionate legal guidance for a poor woman unable to afford a lawyer. The missive asks for swift, cheap paths to justice and highlights a historic notice from St. Martin's Coffee House, plus excerpts from letters discussing parliamentary unions, taxation fears, and church-state loyalties as context. The fragmentary text includes references to domain politics and noble correspondence.
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A. B
Dirklin
Letter on English marriage law and cruel husbands
A letter from London complains of English men who abandon wives or refuse to live with them while clinging to an English marriage, urging benevolent readers to advise and aid distressed wives. It notes a certificate of marriage legitimizing the union and calls for action to protect vulnerable women.
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Price
London
St. Martin’s
Dublin
Great Britain
Ireland
England
Scotland
Corke
Tvrote
Prince Soltyki
Severin
Bihop
Cracow
Warsaw
Aucultlat
Bishtop
Lordon
Meres
Sterropoltai
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Kentstreet
Southwark
Headborough
St. Giles’s
Peers
Guildhall
John Austin
Robert James
Newgate-street
Wood-street
Britain
Oxford
Cambridge
South-Britain
George I
Wales
Thomas Badeslade
W. H. Toms
I. Hawes
W. Clarke
R. Collins
Postscript
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