Exile and rebuke to a royal tutor in 1770 letter
Suffolk Street February 23 1770 a long scolding letter targets Lord Bute as a corrupt tutor to the young king denouncing tyranny private avarice and perfidy. The writer condemns his influence on government and calls for penitence and obedience to the constitution referencing Brentford York and Allen in a warning tone. The piece ends noting a publication on excise laws by Samuel West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
teReion
Vanith
Jecraing
Brentford
Senate
Luttrell
Hort
K—e
George’s Fields
Allen
Egremont
York
K.g
Suffolk -Street
Universal Prayer Book and Devotional Discourses 1769
This Day is published price 3s bound PSHE Universal Prayer-Book containing prayers meditations hymns devotions for daily use with Discourses on the Lord's Supper and feasts of the Church of England, Lives and sufferings of Apostles and Martyrs compiled from original manuscripts by Bilho two eminent divines London 1769.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Richt
Bilho
Tabernacle
London
W. Griffin
Catherine Street
This Day is Published Price 2s New Every Man His Own Physician
A scarce medical guide by John Theobald M D compiled for the Duke of Cumberland. It offers remedies and plain instructions for preserving health with practical directions for sick persons, printed in Strand for Wye Griffin. Also notes on a second edition comedy The Brothers at Covent Garden Theatre Regal.
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Piva
Wye Griffin
Catharine- Street
Strand
Great Ape Plavte
Covent-Garden
Ricuaap Cumszkua
An Early Pirated Patent Cure Lauded in Town Notice
An 18th century advertisement touts universal purging powders claimed to cure fever smallpox and inflammations. It offers sealed packets sold at a carpet warehouse near St Paul’s Churchyard with a free treatise on disease origins and Letters Patent from the King of France praising the seller’s services.
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Ders
John Aishaud
Paytdahain
Fran
Elteen
Kingdon
Ray
Winning
Wno
St. Paul's
France
Cured by Marchant's Drops Prominent London Doctor Notice
A personal letter to Mr Norton, surgeon in Golden-square London, claims a complete cure of inveterate scurvy with Marchant's Drops. The writer describes severe stomach sickness, cough, and breathing issues, touts universal cures for blood foulness and various ailments, and lists numerous shops selling the remedy with Bold proprietor John Norton's hand-written signature NN B.
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Marchant
Norton
Golden--square
Picemblly
London
John Noreton
Turner
Toner
Crosby-Square
Bishopsgate
Tree Keen
Fleet-Street
Newport-street
Byérs
Paradise
Therhithe
Fells
nofter-Row
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The
Middlesex Journal
Lord Bute
Blund
Samuel West
Gartick’s “Head
Brent, Strand
Oxford Magazine
University: Museum
Feruary
S. Bladon
J. Coote
A. New
Eprrion
Severra
John Theobald
Duke of Cumberland
Golden-squarey
Speen
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