Purse and debt in verse as poets plead for pay
Poets Corner laments lack of gold and asks what value verses hold for creditors. The speaker questions if hexameters can cancel debts, wonders about bail, and imagines mortgaging Elysium and mythic streams to pay obligations. The piece ends with a plea to the purse to crack its strings and admit no payment.
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Elysium
Tempe
Parvelfus
Tagus
Pactolus
Orpheus
Homer
Achilles
Heltor
Ajax
Clergy Fee Grievances Highlighted for Parliament Action
A writer to the Middlesex Journal urges exposing ecclesiastical fees and misused Church funds. He argues inferior clergy suffer while rectors and vicars collect dues for marriages christenings and burials, proposes public scrutiny and tables of fees for rector vicar clerk sexton and cushion layer.
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Bere
Caricatures of Macaroni Spark Print-Shop Debate
The writer mocks the Macaroni label and its numerous distorted caricatures circulating in print shops, arguing the term’s true derivation and the absurdity of the popular depictions presented in newspapers and pamphlets of the era.
The Macaroni Caricatures in The Suds
A writer critiques caricatures titled The Dean's-yard Marcaroni and The Macaroni Countryman showing a clergyman in robe and a farmer in rustic dress drinking punch. He questions why both are called Macaronies and notes a recently published pamphlet The Macaroni in the Suds with one memorable point about oddly pruned edges.
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Dean’s-yard
William III memorial verses cited in Middlesex Journal
The Middlesex Journal for November 4, 1772 recalls four lines by Dr. Watts from 1701 on the death of William III. The note asks to publish Watts's couplets honoring the prince and condemning tyranny, urging their appearance in a paper devoted to liberty. The sender links the anniversary to a call for freedom and immortal fame.
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Middlesex Journal
William III
Watts
Tide in Europe and London Notes on War and Politics
Postscript reports Denmark pressing Russia for troops to defend Norway, while war plans loom. Catalonia endures record rains flooding rivers and hindering routes to France and Madrid. Warsaw dispatches claim Austrian control of suburbs and threats to signatories. Rome trades Jesuits house at Frescati to move toward a seminary. Commentary lauds defending the poor and regulating prices. London rumors claim Lord North to probe high food prices. Shelburne's rise linked to Townsend’s mayoralty. Powder Plot anniversary observed with bells and bonfires amid debate over its legitimacy. Wilkes praised by some as a gentleman despite ministerial rifts.
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Flanders
Hamburgh
Denmark
Russia
Sweden
Norway
Barcelona
Catalonia
France
Madrid
London
Warsaw
Crafimer
Confederacy
Wiclezka
Rome
Cardinal York
Frescati
Lord North
Guy Vaux
Ashley’s
George the Third
James the First
Wilkes
Petijon
Cheapside incident and 1774 mayoral politics discussed
The report notes a Cheapside gathering around Reverend Horne aimed at removing a figurative burden rather than insult, and it predicts Mr. Wilkes as Lord Mayor for 1774 with Townsend defending his entry. It mentions promotions in the current reign, plans for a royal procession, and a new cutter near Millshore signaling possible naval press.
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Horne
Cheapside
Wilkes
Messrs
Sawbridge
Oliver
Townsend
Alderman Townsend Alledges
Iris
Julius Ceesar
England
Millshore
Limehousehole
Tickets and Shares at State Lottery Offices in London
Tickets and shares are selling at Barnes and GottGuT y old State lottery Office No 9 Popes Head Alley near the Royal Exchange and at their new State lottery Office No 10 Cornhill They have been notable for selling large prizes rather than pretenders with small prizes In Pope's Head Alley No 3379 yielded 20000l in 1767 No 19384 10 000l in 1768 No 25614 10000l in the last lottery with other prizes of 6000l 2600l and 1000l Tickets offer lowest terms The drawing starts November 16.
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Barnes and GottGuT_y
Pope’s Head Alley
Royal Exchange
Cornhill
Theatres on Drury Lane and Covent Garden
Theatrical entertainments listed for yesterday and this evening include Tamerlane with Daphne and Amintor at Drury Lane, Bajazet with Mr Palmer and Mr Barry, The Witches, The Gamesters, The Irish Widow, and Covent Garden’s Tamerlane with Daphne and Amintor followed by Rules and Have a Wife with Daphne and Amintor.
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Drury-Lane
Tamertane
Palmer
Barry
Gamesters
Covent Garden
Tamerlane
Daphne
Amintor
Bank and stock notes amid old South Sea and India issues
A compact colonial era financial note lists Bank terms and shares titled 143 3 4 South Sea and Old S S Ann New S Ann in ia with 5 percent red 86 3 4 Ditto consol 3 per cent 1726 Ind Ann Wuukte and Tr No 16.
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South Sea
New &. S
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Poets Corner
William
Postscript
Weexty
Fogarty
Archbishop Tillotson
Charles Ashton
Holland
Kew
R. Gonpay
J. Towers
Fore-street
Cripplegate
R. Baldwin
Pater-nofter-row
Westminster
Oxford
Cambridge
Kingdom
Lombard-tireet
London Tavern
Wilson
Society
Alderman Harley
Sheriffs of London
Alderman Oliver
Alderman Lewes
Lord Meyer
Sheriff Lewes
Alderman Wikles
Friends of Liberty
Joseph Mawbey
Hankey and Co
Lowry and Co
Halliday and Co
Frederick Bull
Leadenhell Strcet
Thomas Wilson
J. Williams
Mitre Tavern
Fleetstreet
Thomas Fairfax
Muatt
Fowler
J. Cooke
Great
Britain
Ireland
Thomas Smith
Butcher-Row
Temple-Bar
Strand
Persia
Turkey
Wilton
Kidderminster
Cheney
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