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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 31, 1771
Page
3
A fragment notes a financial amount around 160 and upwards connected to names or terms that appear garbled. The readable parts point to a numeric figure and a list of unclear items, suggesting a brief financial or legal notation within a broader clipping. No clear event, date, or place is established.
The report lists ships including St George Toone Tagus Iapis and Neptune Dobes with wind in NE. The Newmarket Wilson from Newcastle and Jennet Scratton from Lancaster are observed near Lifton. Other vessels such as Betty Labridge from Newfoundland Ago Shafton from Leghorn and Happy Return Sangster from Gottenburgh are noted at Mortay Frith with strong northern east winds.
The article reports a New Year court scene at St James's with the Prince of Wales Bishop of Durham and Princess of Brunswick in attendance, notes collar day nobles in their garters, mentions no court later that day, and covers further arrivals and political gossip including ministerial moves, attempts to curb corruption, and overseas notices from Dublin, Stockholm, and Holland. It recounts local incidents, ship news, and social happenings, ending with marriages, deaths, and a robbery.
A fragment reflecting on James I’s era and Elizabethan remedies for debtors. The text laments lawyers power, praises attempts to redefine common and statute law, and notes the renewal of Elizabethan relief commissions in the fifteenth year of James I’s reign to free honest insolvents.
James Stephen argues debtors were imprisoned to defraud creditors and cites statutes from James I to justify modern bail refusals. He contrasts past practices with present judgments, urging readers to rethink confinement norms and the moral force of the courts.
The piece announces an upcoming display on January 1 and a February opening for ANTHEON in Oxford Street 1 7 LL. It laments attempts to suppress the magazine, praises support from readers and country booksellers, notes reprints No LX and X, and promises a forthcoming account of proceedings in the next issue.
A historical advert proclaims a lemon salt extract as a versatile cleaner and flavoring. It touts punch flavor, fruit convenience, stain removal for lace and linens, and whitening effects. Sold wholesale and retail by London perfumers Bayley, Price, Newbery, Grosvenor, and Rothwell at various shops with a one shilling box price.
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