Bankrupts of Kent and Bristol Listed in Proceedings
Patrick Campbell mariner and dealer of Hermitage-freet Wapsing snow of Greenwich in Kent is named among bankrupts. Charles Everett victualler and coach master of the Bush Tavern Corn-street Bristol appears with October dates. John Rant forth Upholder of St Stephen Walbrook at Guildhall is listed. Jacob Wilson and Isaac Fell booksellers of Paternofter Row Guildhall also mentioned in the same notices.
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Bankrupoy
Patrick Gampbell
Hermitage-freet
Greenwich
Kent
Mariner
Deikler
Charles Everett
Bristol
Bush Tavern
Corn-street
Joh Rantforth
St. Stephen
Walbrook
Upholder
Guild_ hall
Jacob Wilson
Isaac Fell
Paternofter Row
Guildhall
Surrender and Interrogatories at the King’s Bench
Morday 1768 Mr Bingley bookseller surrendered to record appearance and bail in a criminal matter at the King’s Bench. He refused to enter a new recognizance to answer interrogatories, arguing the law of the land requires trial by peers and that no man is bound to accuse himself. He urged that attachment rules are unjust and referenced Magna Charta and Star Chamber precedents in defense.
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Bingley
King’s Bench
Morday
King
England
Qon
Bern
Wight
Dean
Montequiex
Court of Star-Chamber
Cafe
Charles I
Speedwell Arrival Sparks Merchants Debate in Philadelphia
From the Philadelphia Gazette dated July 31 this report notes brig Speedwell arriving from Liverpool after May 25 with dry goods for merchants. A committee counseled storing those goods to honor non importation terms, while merchants later debated consignments, storage, or return of items ordered after the agreement, and set rules banning post agreement shipments.
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Philadelphia Gazette
Philadelphia
Speedwell
Strickland
Liverpool
Preladessbie
Great Britain
Great Betas and Liberty Conflict Rumors in Colonial Notes
A fragment notes an embargo style warning against shipping, with references to Great Britain, Indian affairs, and a Liberty sloop incident. It recounts a confrontation at sea involving Capt. Packwood, the Liberty crew firing near him, and subsequent mob action burning the Liberty and its boats after the vessel from Connecticut was seized on suspicion of contraband.
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A&s
America
Alftzrica
Prin‘ter
Philadelphia
Detroit
Newport
Rhodeland
Liberty
Broughe
Connecticut
Packwood
Long Wharf
New London
Goat Island
London Notes On Court, Petition And Markets
London dispatch reports a thin levee at St James's with Lord Barrington at War and the Earl of Weymouth hosting a noble levee. A petition drive thrives in Aylesbury with Earl Verney and Hampden leading residents to sign, while the East India Company votes on a crown officer's role. Updates cover Comet observations, Franco-Dutch parleys, fleet movements, and Old Bailey trials with multiple executions and sentences.
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London
St. James's
Tate
Richmond
Lord Barrington
St. James’s
Earl of
East India House
Orion
Aylesbury
Tam
Vance x
Shell
Earl Temple
Jos
Earl Verney
Henry Grenville
George Bentick
Aubery
Wil, Stanhope
Edmund Burke
Hampden
Calcraft
Lord Verney
Mr. Obrien
Lord Temple
Lord Chatham
George Grenville
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American .News
Ausbery
Wallington
John Hampden
Charles
Rogers
Mickillimakinac
North America
Hague
France
States General
Republic
Leghorn
Cortica
Dublin
Qld
Thomas Clarke
Finch Lane
Cornhill
Mary Landicker
Bermondsey Church-Yard
Maidens Lane
Covent- Garden
Collivoe
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