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Middlesex Middlesex Journal in Middlesex, Middlesex

04 Jul 1769

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Middlesex Middlesex Journal

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Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom

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Jul 04, 1769

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Rumors and Warnings Wind Through London Streets

Surviving notices recount river collisions, robberies, a new bridge stone ceremony at Shrewsbury, and a major fire near Wood Street. Reports of a bowing hack mare achieving 54 minutes for 20 miles, funerals and marriages, public unrest in Spitalfields, and legal notices on dividends fill a bustling urban chronicle.

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Mélinéry Rome Bute Blackwall Lisbon London Golden Square Hounslow Road Joseph Hankey Spittlefields Price Shoreditch Shrewsbury Ohn Gwynn John Aftrey Thomas Hill Carter Grub-street Old Bailey Smithfield Fleet-lane Gréen-arbour-court Breck-neck-stairs Fleet-street England Mary Warnett Mellar Othewise Brooks Newgate Mason Deptford Lukin Dragoon Guards St. George's Bloomsbury Raffel William Raffel Birmingham Norfolk St. Clement’s Church John Casey Middle Temple Efa Bruce Arundelstreet Piterson East-Sheen Cumine Bankton Tiete Lord Gardinston Barnet Ambrose Hammond Great Pulteney-street James Blygh Nicolls Charter-house Joseph Eland Sunderland Guildhall John Dean Thamies-street P Béndick Cock Sheffield Yorkshire Currier White Bear James ‘Rhodes Leeds New Inn George Burton Scarborough Queen’s Head Pilgrimstreet Newcastle Upon Tyne
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Wealthy rulers ruin the poor with luxury and tax abuse

A desolate river of critique decries luxury and state neglect. The author cites Lucan and Shakespeare to argue the rich drain public resources while the poor suffer. Tax burdens, low wages, and price gouging push many to misery, workhouses, and parishes for support. The critique laments social inequity and urges public relief.

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Lucan Timon Shakespeare King Lear
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London News and Notices from Leicester Fields Past Evening

London reports Francis Sykes arriving from the East Indies as advisers bring word of Mrs. Sykes's death in Bengal last December. Parliament may refer petitions, while London livery and Middlesex petition fates are debated. Deaths include Lord Sandys and Earl of Bute. trade and Bengal treaty progress are noted with Clive and Suja Dowla. Reporting covers Jamaica, St Domingo events, West Indian governance, and Gambia fortifications with O’Hara’s peace efforts. Dated items, appointments, and a court case conclude with local notices and marriages and deaths.

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Leicester-fields Francis Sykes East- Indies Middlesex Earl of Bute Turin Sandys Lord Sandys Oimbersley Worcester K. Geo. I Letitia Tho, Tipping Wheaffeld Oxford Edwin Miartia Sandys Mary William Trumbull Hampstead Park Berks William Ann Christopher Bethel Jane Edwin Sandys York Elizabeth City and Liberty Westminster Suja-Dowla Banares Sujn-Dowla Lord Clive Bengal Company Tonni-Gee India Herder Nugg Asia Blackwall Stainforthe Tilbury Bar Indiaman Hunt China Margate Jamaica St. Domingo France
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Protests on Church Revenue and Clergy Housing

A fragmentary letter decries unequal church revenues and the resulting hardship for vicars driven from their residences. It questions divine vengeance on such oppression and urges unity for redress, citing London’s parish church practices and the need to address inequities in church and state.

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London
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Immigrant settlers reach Susquehannah lands at American Canaan

Philadelphia reports a armed body of over fifty industrious men from New England has arrived near the Minifinks with carts oxen horses and tools on their way to claim and settle lands on the Susquehannah. A small party was driven off by proprietary agents and supporters but the men keep joining from New Jersey and speak of a promised land.

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