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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 23, 1772
Page
2
Fragmentary verse from Mr Jenner's Town Eclogues lampoons aging tradesmen households and shifting social mores. It contrasts prudent domestic life with lavish shopping and public amusements in Whitechapel and Deptford, noting how fashion and pleasure erode traditional virtue and order. Named places include Whitechapel Deptford Shad Thames and St. Giles's.
This excerpt extols domestic happiness as the heart’s true joy and the anchor of all delight. It contrasts freedom without family with the comforting duties of wife and mother, praising filial love, education of children, and the stabilizing power of a loving home. The speaker pleads for Amanda to return and share domestic care, arguing that true contentment springs from family bonds and virtuous guidance.
A witty verse describes authorial rush to publish two short volumes in weeks. It lampoons authors who stir romantic intrigue with jealous parents, mistaken affairs, and a run of everyday delays. It ends with Elopement and marriage as the resolved arc.
A court report details the March 14 burglary accusation involving Samary Gratrix and Joan Sharpless. A pawnbroker’s servant testifies that three silk stockings were taken and later recovered, with further items located in Oxford market pawnbrokers. The prosecutor, Owen Hudson, recalls negotiations and deliveries, while Sir John Fielding records and investigates the case.
Witness Jonathan Dunbar testifies that Sharpless Gratrix and another conspired to obtain silk stockings at Mr Hudson's lodging. Gratrix served, Sharpless posed as a gentleman, stockings were hidden and pawned with one pair sold for a guinea. Both men admit agreement. verdict: guilty and to be transported.
A published dissertation claims nature and effects of Velno's Vegetable Syrup as an acknowledged royal patent remedy for vene real and scorbutic cases. An appendix lists cures in extraordinary cases, with attestations from figures of character. The remedy is sold at Ludgate Street Haymarket Capel Court Spa Row Clerkenwell.
An 18th century prospectus for A new two volume English dictionary by Frederick Barlow. It promises extended matter beyond Bailey and Dyshe with copper plates, grammar and world geography, to be published weekly starting this day. First number offered gratis with subscription notes and promised free extras beyond twenty four numbers.
An old advertisement touts a lemon salt extract sold wholesale by perfumers in London. It claims pure acid lemon concentrate preserves flavor, stabilizes punch, and cleans fabrics from iron moulds ink spots wine stains. Sold at one shilling per box by multiple merchants in Cockspur Street Haymarket and surrounding areas.
A short extract notes the extraordinary case chosen from many to illustrate the efficacy of the medicine Llamic Tinetube for scurvy and related ailments. The passage emphasizes its usefulness and presents the remedy as remarkable.
Letter from Richard Restarick praises balsamic tincture used after failing hospital care. He describes severe swelling and weakness, then recovery after months of use, with corroboration from his master Grantham. Advertises wholesale and retail sales by F Newbery and doctor’s house in Soho at 35 shillings 6d per bottle.
A letter from Hackney 1772 thanks Surgeon Norton for John Norton's Drops curing long standing scurvy and related blood disorders. The petitioner ANN JOYCE endorses the treatment and lists numerous shops and addresses where the drops are sold for six shillings a bottle.
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