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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 08, 1772
Page
2
Petition from clergy and professors of law and medicine requests relief from subscription requirements to articles and confessions of faith. They argue rights to interpret Scripture themselves, fear undermining Protestant liberty, and seek redress from Parliament without abandoning allegiance to the Crown.
A 1772 letter from Vauxhall rails against the Surrey Roads Board for failing to repair the London to Vauxhall route. The writer laments the horseway, footway, and causeway conditions after nine months of plan changes and tolls. He questions the surveyors' oversight and warns the path is impracticable for pedestrians.
A historic remedy prescribes filling a warming pan with boiling water, covering it with a carpet, placing feet on it and wrapping legs with a blanket for an hour. Mr Rea first tried the method about two years ago after a severe goat attack, then bedbound for four months, and reports quick relief after a fortnight. He repeats the treatment monthly with no adverse effects.
In Aberdeen a group of woolcombers linked to a broader unlawful pact plotted to kill a fellow tradesman who taught apprentices. After breaking into his shop and setting a fire, the victim escaped. warnings and further threats followed, with John Gibbons among the conspirators.
A garbled list of debtor and surrender notices appears, naming Anthony Morland and others from London Wllington Parernofter-row and Walton Lancashire. Surrenders list include several trades such as carpenter coachmaker weaver printer linen-draper and drummers, with dates Feb 13 to March 21 at Guildhall and related locations.
This Day magazine lists price and contents including songs from theatres and gardens, a toast and sentiment collection, a list of European Free Mason Lodges with dates, swimming instruction, fishery notes, laws, and cricket rules, printed by T. Evans in Paternoster Row.
An 18th century advertisement touts Vermifuge Elixir as a cure for worm related ailments including stomach pains fullness and irregular fever with convulsions cough and potential consumption. It claims safe rapid relief without purging vomiting or violent effects and lists Robert Winch Cherist at Haymarket and Newbery bookseller at St Pauls Church Yard as suppliers with a price of 3s 6d per bottle and a tract offering guidance on worm related disorders.
An 1769 London advertisement promotes Pectoral Lozenges prepared by T Greenough at Ludgate Street with claims of soothing coughs hoarseness and throat defluxions plus relief for asthma and shortness of breath. Sold by Bayley in Cockspur Street Rothwell New Bond Street and May Patty Bath. Counterfeit warnings note a specific lid inscription and a court damages case.
A grateful letter from Thomas Wilkin of Oxford describes a twelve year old boy cured within a month of using Maredant's Drops, after failed treatments. The note praises Mr Norton the surgeon in Golden-square London and lists multiple outlets selling the remedy with counterfeits warned.
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