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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 08, 1769
Page
2
Fragment from the Middlesex Journal discussing ancient and vulgar opinions on the heavens. It covers beliefs about the earth’s shape, the idea of longitude and latitude, and negates antipodal notions with references to St Chrysostom Lactantius and Augustine.
An 18th century advertisement promotes SEAR CLOTH claimed to cure rheumatism and ease pains, alongside sugar cakes said to destroy worms in people of all ages. Priced at pree fix-pence and one shilling per dozen, the goods are sold by J. Jones at Great Buffel Street Bloomsbury and 14 Paternoster Row London.
Executors sell by auction at Putney Common on Thursday the 76th instant at one o'clock a large Rignell's Coffee-House messuage with stables garden two acres of meadow and arable land. Property benefits from a 21 year annual quit rent with about six years left. Viewings and particulars available at multiple London and Surrey locations. Trade cards boast a broker and surveyor offering private contracts and public sales of estates and curiosities. Dr Boerhaave seaboratic pills advertised with testimonials and cautions, sold by Norton in Golden Square with various remedies claimed for scurvy and digestive issues.
London dispatch notes arrivals of Lord Sackville and Lord Grenville from the country. Lady Pembroke sails to Bath for waters. A coffeehouse bet of one thousand guineas to a hundred on a ministry change within a month. Lord Chatham held a private conference with the King. Reported plans for a colonel to soon embark for the continent.
A long column of interwoven items details bets on ministry change, political figures and marriages, ship movements to Africa, army transports for Senegal, and visits by governors. Reports include Mr. Douglas’s marriage plans, arrangements for brickmakers, and plans for counting Danish inhabitants. The piece also covers naval assets, road building under Count de Vaux, and local criminal and court activity, with several social events and accidents noted.
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