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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 21, 1772
Page
3
Reports from the era note the signing of preliminaries toward peace mediated by Vienna. Details remain unclear. officials say the arrangements satisfy the eastern powers and will be ratified at the next congress, though the location is not yet announced.
In Caithness Scotland prices for grain rose from 8s to 14s 6d per pound amid shortages. A tragedy near Loch-Shein in Sutherland left 66 men dead after a group crossing ice sank, sending funerals to a distant churchyard.
The report notes the death of Neville Mathelyne Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. It mentions executions for bounty crimes in Norfolk and a sentence of death for two heifer thefts. In Reading and Winchester, several convicted criminals face reprieves or pending execution for robbery and related offenses.
A fragment from Chatham notes Pembroke and Dun Kirk paid off at Portsmouth on Friday. The 66 gun ship, 50 gun Salisbury, 28 gun Liverpool, all laid up in Ordinary. Officers paid half-year wages up to Michaelmas and Christmas. Yards to be paid quarterly, next beginning in May. Royal guard ships to receive half-year wages soon. Reports of a Roche murderer void of foundation. Sailed westward with Role, Weatharill Cox, and other vessels from Cowes.
A chaotic survey of storms, ship news, legal notices, and public concerns. Reports include shipwreck aftermaths and rescue efforts, seizures and trials for theft, weather damage to churches, price movements for corn and provisions, and appointments within the church and government. Names such as Frome and Winchester bishops figure among shifting local and national events.
A catalog entry describes a set of historic educational and legal works. Items include a PSHE tutor manual and an epistolary guide, along with translations and commentaries on crime and punishment. The volume notes pronunciation guides, grammar, spelling, and a guide to debt imprisonment with critical notes.
Public notice describes Fir COUGHS HOARSENESSES and Déluxiers on the Lungs with Pectoral Lozenges prepared by T Greenough at No 7 Ludgate Street London. It warns against counterfeit imitations and cites a December 1769 King's Bench verdict Damages. Lozenges sold also by Bayley Rothwell Pur die Bath and other outlets.
An advertisement touts British Pills as a private practice remedy for bilious, stomach and bowel disorders. It claims to strengthen the stomach, purify the bowels, aid digestion, and restore vitality, with claimed benefits for the irritable, sedentary, and travel-stressed. Sold in boxes at 5s. or 3s. by F Newnery in London and Fletcher Hodson in Cambridge NB, with urgent-case remedies offered via New Berry and possible attendance of the inventor.
An anonymous testimonial proclaims a pill from Adams’s Solvent as a radical cure for stone and gravel, promising avoidance of lithotomy. The narrator traveled from Bristol to St Thomas’s Hospital, cites Dr Fordyce’s examination, and credits a surgeon’s success with the remedy. Certificates from St Thomas’s and Dottery Mackenzie back it, with sales locations listed in Cornhill Whitechapel and other shops.
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