Debate on Portage of the Clergy in the House of Commons
Monday proceedings in the House of Commons debated the Portage of the Clergy. Seymour moved to bring in a bill to quiet church possessions against dormant claims. opposition by Townshend and others. Arguments centered on Nullum tempus and potential abuse, with ministers urging consistency while critics warn of harming church property and tithes. The session included motions on writs for replacing MPs who accepted Crown offices and questions of parliamentary procedure.
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House of Commons
K. Seymour
Thomas ‘Yownshend
Skinner
Grey Cooper
George Onslow
Col. Carlow
Brickdale
Dowderwell
Burks
Charles Fox
Cnses
Truman
Alderspan
Sawbridge
London Gazette
Board of Trade‘ and Plantations
Anne
House of ‘Commons
Cambridge
Soame Jennings
Board of Trade
Giert Elfict
Hadfe
Warwick
Lord Greville
Board of ‘Trade
Savdridge
Buf
Fragmented legislative debate on totem proposal
The excerpt shows a late eighteenth or nineteenth century style debate. The speaker criticizes new introductions and questions procedural propriety. A single remedy is cited for one case, and the text ends with a note that the discussion will continue in the next issue.
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Betti
Laughing Jester of Wit and Mirth by Marmaduke Merry
An 18th century advertisement for a pocket volume titled The Luscious Jester or Hicu Season Merriment. Aimed at lovers of wit with frontispiece of Johnson Murphy Foote Bickerstaffe and the Duke of Cumberland. Includes epigrams riddles jokes songs and entertaining tales with new content and a push to banish care. Printed in Paternoster Row and sold by booksellers in Britain and Ireland.
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Samuel Johnson
Arthur Murphy
Samuel Foote
Isaac Bickerstaffe
Duke of Cumberland
Marmaduke Merry
Laughing Club
J. Jefferice
Great Britain
Ireland
THOMAS SMITH sells bedding and carpets at The Corner of Butchers Row
Thomas Smith of Athes Bedding Carpet Blanket and Upholstery Warehouse advertises in Tem ples Bar location offering Persian Turkish Wilton Kidderminster and Scotch carpets. He stocks white blankets feather beds quilts mattresses cotton counterpanes bed ticks rugs coverlids and ready made bedsteads with bedding of all kinds for sea or land. Large stock to be sold at the lowest terms for ready money.
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Thomas, Smith
ATHES
Butchers Row
Temple- Bar
Persia
Turkey
Wilton
Kidderminster
Cheney
Linsey
N.B
Vegetable Syrup touted as sovereign remedy in venereal and scrofulous cases
An 18th century advertisement touts Velno's Vegetable Syrup as a sovereign cure for venereal and scrofulous disorders. It recounts a case of Charles Weyman, a painter in Middlesex, who suffered bone decay and ulcers before using the syrup, which allegedly led to healing and regained mobility. The ad notes bottle price, sales locations, and imitator precautions.
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Harles Weyman
Chisa
Bow
Middleséx
J. Burrows
Fretcher and
Hopson
Extraordinary Cure by Marehant's Drops in Oxford
A letter from Thomas Wilkins of Oxford to Mr Norton in London recounts a dramatic recovery of his twelve year old son from a violent scorbutic gum and tooth disease after using Marehant's Drops. The account praises Norton as sole proprietor and lists numerous London shops selling the remedy, warning against counterfeits and detailing claimed benefits including digestion and appetite.
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Norton
Golden-square
London
Oxford
S Diforder
Thomas ‘Wilkins
Nor‘ton
Golden-{quare
Piccadilly
John Norton
Marehant
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Wolins
Robert Winch
Chymist
Haymarket
Westminster
F. Newbery
St. Paul’s Church-Yard
Ludgate-Street
Impara
James Stephen
Mr. Stephen
Society of the Middle Temple
Mr. Jackson
E. Evans
Pater-nofter-Row
E. Cooke
Royal Exchange
Ushom
Carolina Pelham
Victoria Newit
Trussac
Vergy
Paris
Bours Deaux
P. Shatwell
Adams Street
Richardson
Geneva
de Vergy
Monthly Review
Critical Review
Hamilton
Levant
Russia
Guinea
James and
John Hamilton
Admiralty Coffee-House
Charing-Cross
Kearfly
Bookfeller
Ludgate- Street
Mr. Parker
Cornhill
Fletcher and Hodson
England
Scotland
Hamiltons
Mefi
Fletcher
Hodson
Gach
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