Perilous London News Report of Robberies and Drownings
A grisly run of 18th century notices records a Grenadier drowning in Tower Ditch while recovering a hat, multiple robberies near London including an Oxford Coach and a Tobacconist, plus a London man fending off a highwayman. Dispatches from Antigua and Bristol discuss privateers, ship losses, and concerns over trade as war clouds gather.
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Florente
Rob. Highmore
Harrington
Jenkins
East-Indies
Enfield
Salmon’s Brook
High Road
Edmonton
London
Oxford
Duke of Porwand’s Park
Beconsfield
Worcester
Mr. Taylor
Bermondsey Street
Linnen
Evening Watch
Samuel Pain
Kingston
Worcester Street
Southwark
George May
Col. de Veil
Will
James Barrett
Gambler
Newgate
Gothorn
Guiney
Leeward Islands
Antigua
New England
Bowden
London Affairs and the Mayoral Election Fantasies
The piece laments past advice given about London governance and the potential consequences of opposing the sovereign, noting politicians’ attempts to safeguard trade with warships. It reflects on a public stock market update with prices for South Sea stock and various bonds and financial instruments amid a wartime climate.
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South Sea
Prem
India
Royal Exchange Assurance
London Dicto
Englisb
Mine Adventure
London Liverymen back Godschall or Heathcote for Lord Mayor
At a General Meeting in Vintners Hall London on September 25 1742 the Liverymen unanimously supported nominating Sir Robert Godschall Knt Add and George Heathcote Ald and Salter to be returned to the Court of Aldermen on Michaelmas Day for selection of one to be Lord Mayor for the year ahead.
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London
Vintners Hall
Robert Godschall
Knt
Add
George Heathcote
Salter
Grorae Heathcote
Worthy Liverymen urged on Godschall affair in city vote
The note appeals to London’s liverymen urging support for Sir Robert Godschall Kt Alderman and Ironmonger, stressing fate, interest and poll if needed to influence the matter.
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City of London
Robert Godschall
Gentlemen Clergy and Freeholders of Devos County Elects Two MPs
Sourced from a 1740 missive, Exon August 8. Courtenay and Fortescue express gratitude for the county’s nomination to represent the COUNTRY INTEREST in Parliament. They pledge fidelity and oppose measures harming the constitution, vowing to defend the welfare and security of free people.
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Devos
Tasfaey Laf
Exon
Wierram Courtenay
Twbopwilus Fortescue
Prize of the Bourdeaux Academy on Negro complexion and electricity
The Royal Academy at Bourdeaux announces a perpetuity gold medal funded by the late Duke de la Fosce for the most probable explanation of the causes of Blackness in skin and hair and its change upon interracial marriage. Dissertations on electricity and color are invited with strict submission rules. prizes awarded in 1740 and plans for 1741–1942 noted.
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Royal Academy of Polite Literature
Sociences and Arts
Bourdeaux
Duke de la Fosce
Subj
Academy
Academie
Academie Rite
Kuhn
Dantzick
Kulbel
Poland
Konigstein
Sieur Brun’s
Bechlem Hospital Committee Meeting at Moorfields
The Committee of the Governors of Bechlem Hospital will meet at Moorfields on Wednesday 1st October at three o clock in the afternoon to receive proposals from persons willing to serve the hospital with beef at a stated price from that day to Lady Day.
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Bechlem
Moorfields
Afernoon
Trustees Set Next Turnpike Repair Meeting Date
At a Surrey meeting of the Trustees for Bagshor Heath repairs the next meeting to repair the road is ordered for Saturday October 7 at three in the afternoon. The venue is the Red Lyon in Egham.
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Turnpke
Bagshor Heath
Surrey
Escape and recapture of Edward Price at Lincoln then Manchester
On Sept 22 1740 news notes Edward Price who fled from Pt Castle of Lincoln on Aug 2 1739 was retaken at Manchester on May 24 1740. Clement Wood Gaoler offered five guineas reward. Price had a bay brown gelding later delivered to Wood on the 16th instant. Price is transported and the owner pays. Charges may allow him to be pursued again.
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Thomas Pierce
Burtons Mill
Wincancon
Somersetshire
Major Tame
Lanyard
Bishops Gate Streec
Floreas
Edward Price
Castle of
Lincoln
Manchester
Clement Wood
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St. Kitt’s
Hispaniola
Mitchief
Windward
Bristol
St. Sebastiah
Great Britain
William Hewitt
Leicester Fields
Winchester
Redbridge
Hampshire
Imber
Shaw
Anchos
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