12 May 1770
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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 12, 1770
Page
1
A reader signs as An Enemy To Tyrants, criticizing suppression and urging caution. The letter rails against Johnson and a Sofian, notes a publisher’s actions, and recounts a rough copied creed from James the First era. It includes reflections on old landholding and national loyalty, with a warning to editors and readers.
Fragmentary political manifesto argues dispensing laws when inconvenient, defends divine right of kings, praises ministers over representatives, supports public funds for private use, and calls for sovereign power to suppress opposition, with dismissive views of governors and officials. The text presents a royalist, autocratic stance with little regard for accountability.
An aged advertisement fragment offers This Day awas published in two volumes. It promotes Northern Antiquities with descriptions of manners customs and laws of early Danes, translated texts and notes. It lists printers and vendors including T Carnan and F Newbery in St Pauls Church Yard.
This edition presents two volumes priced six shillings bound in vellum and calf, titled The History of England from the Beginning of the World to the Empire of Charlemagne, by M Bossuet. Translated by James Elphinston, printed for T Carnan and F Newbery in St Pauls Church-Yard.
A 18th century pamphlet discusses taxes affecting Lahoutin prices and national trade, outlining maintenance for the poor and vagrancy prevention. It includes an attached sketch of a tariff scheme and notes on poverty rates, with added essays on practical agriculture and gardening titled as Field Culture in Seven Years. Published for Sw Hooper at Pall Mall.
A sprawling 18th century London advertisement lists perfumery wares and beauty items from a Co veritry Street shop near Hay Market. It touts lavender waters and eaux de toilette, fruit and flower scents, hair preparations, powders, and salves for export and retail. Names and places include King Lavenders, Marble Water, Archibuside, and Windsor, with items such as lemon scent, bergamot essence, rose waters, and Spanish India wax.
The advertisement offers a large variety of bedding and furniture items including blankets bed ticks quilts counterpanes and carpets. It promises ready money discounts and states the goods can be sold either as is or made up to order with terms deemed very low.
A rare 1770 letter compares Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart and urges British women to accept laws. It laments press censorship and calls for peerless obedience to the reigning crown, signed Tut-Cotonbroe Cuamrichy Orchard Street Westminster dated May 12 1770.
A letter from William Heron praises Mr Norton, a London surgeon, for a medicine described as Drops of various kinds. He claims recovery from a severe body disorder and eye weakness, urging others to consult Norton at Golden Square Piccadilly or Snow Hill for authentic remedies.
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