Improbable Imperial Plans From Colonial Letters
An 18th century dispatch reports Majesty’s troops seizing a ship under Captain Stewart’s bulk breaking pretence at Sark and sending her to Providence for condemnation. It also notes Governor Williams of Virginia awarding annual gold medals to William and Mary College and outlines a grand expedition plan by North and South Carolina to mark colonial boundaries, build a fort and plant a southern empire across the South Sea with forts, settlers, and scattered coastal settlements written as a historic proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cap. Stewart
Custom House
William and Mary College
Charles Town
North
South ‘Carolina
Charles II
South Sea
Curatees
Carolinas
Virginia
New York
Boston
California
C.W.E. Naufhead
J. Worrall
Col
P. Uriel Ji
T. Cadell
Strand
Danish Trade Fleet Reinforced Amid Continental War Fears
Copenhagen dispatch notes a strengthened Danish trade protection fleet amid Barbary and Algerine hostilities. Lisbon letters warn of Portuguese court intrigue impacting Britain if war expands. Plymouth reports Spanish frigates at Falklands challenging English squadron, while Velderen and de Guygne diplomacy swirl around Port Egmont. Royal travel, court appointments, and debt rumors thread through London society as a Dublin letter recalls Boston tumult.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Mediterranean
Lisbon
Portugal
Great Britain
Gibraltar
Corfou
Plymouth
Falkland Island
St. James's
Madrid
de Velderen
the Hague
Weymouth
Port Egmont
Monsieur de Guygne
France
Count Chatelet Lomont
Grammont
Bateéman-house
Scho-square
England
London
Chatelet Lemont
Seurge-ftiger
Westminster
Paris
Versailles
Barré
Massachusets
Bay
Egmont
South America
Spain
Newfoundland
Europe
Tagees
Earl Bute
Venice
Count Cragg
Lord Holland
Kensington
Holland
Kingsgate
Dieppe
Margate
St. James’s Park
Earl of Bute
Amelia
Gunnersbury House
Hampton Court
Dublin
Corke
Boston
Preston
Liverpool
Luttrell
Institutors
St. James’s
Temple Society
Palsgrave- Réad-court
Strand
Liege
Corner of Strand advertises bedding and upholstery wares
A merchant at the corner of Butcher Row facing Temple Bar relocates to the Strand to offer Persia Turkey Wilton and Kidderminster carpets blankets feather beds quilts mattresses and furniture for beds. He sells by piece or yard and promises low terms for ready money with large stock and trimmed bedding for sea or land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butcher-Row
Temple Bar
Strand
Bedding Carpets and Furnishings at Paine’s Warehouse
At Paine's Warehouse 67 Holborn North Side between Red Lion Street and Featherstone Buildings a large stock of new patterns and carpets from Persia Wilton Kidderminster and Scots Carpets along with feather beds bedsteads ready made furniture blankets quilts mattress counterpanes and various bedding items for sea or land. Rooms carpeted with Wilton and Scots carpeting. Satisfaction guaranteed with favorable terms to merit esteem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paine
Persia
Wilton
Kidderminster
Cheney
Linsey
Flanders
Middlesex Freeholders Meeting on Grievances 1770
A 1770 Middlesex freeholders assembly in Mile End meets under Rev A Horne to address a petition to the king. The pamphlet details grievances and constitutional measures since the Wilkes papers seizure, with spirited remarks and previously secret intelligence. Printed by J. Wheble in Paternoster Row.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horne
Freeholders of
Middlesex
Wilkes
J. Wheble
Paternoffer-Row
Quack Medicine Ad Promises Wide Health Cure
Fragmented complaint ad repeats dubious claims for a medicine claimed to relieve a long list of ailments from wind and digestion to dropsy and consumption. It lists symptoms and promised cures, then provides a price and multiple vague street addresses for purchase in London areas including Paul's Church Yard Waterhook and Covent Garden shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanlys
Willitee Hai
Paul's
B . Waterhook
Avec and Toy
Letter Promoting Merchant's Drops Cure for Scurvy
A 1770 Portsmouth letter from William Heron testifies to the cure of scurvy and other illnesses with "Merchant's Drops" by Norton. It urges readers to attend to the medicine at Norton’s shop or appointed sellers in London and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ian
Gervant
William Heron
Portsmouth
Norton
Golden
Piccadilly
London
John Norton
Marchant
Mets
Paternofter Row
Cure for the scurvy via Dr Ryseeg balsamic tincture
Public notice thanks Dr Ryseeg for curing the scurvy in the Bell and Roberts families of James Roberts parish, and Saunders of Whetstone. The letter urges publication of the remedy’s success, cites endorsements from local figures, and notes free advice at New Street Carnaby Market with broad assurances of efficacy against blood disorders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rysseeg
George ‘Knipp
Richard Bell
James ‘Roberts
St. Saviour's
Southwark
Maiden-Lane
Duan Cranea
Las
Whetstone
Middlesex
Apel
RySeeg
Newstreet
Broad-weet
Carnaby-market
F.newbery
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lon °Don
Speenham Lands
Upper Moorfields
Newgate
Bow-street
Venables
Rogers
Stepney
Bedford-row
Sir Joseph
Yates
Knt
Court“ of Common Pleas
Wallace
Turkey
Mr. Norton
SSS
John Hide
John Pape
John Frilby
Dr. Rysseeg
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