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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 17, 1772
Page
4
A printer's note presents an extract contrasting historic breakfast and dining times with modern London habits. It describes Mrs M a widow of considerable fortune who meals late daily, drinks after dinner, and often sees the sun rise before bed. It links her health and servants’ woes to this pattern, arguing long habit resists change.
Copenhagen August 29 the King issued an arret dated the twentieth finft exempting all strangers settling in the city from paying the tax hitherto levied on their houses and gardens for maintenance of garrison soldiers. The report notes similar royal and courtly movements across Europe and ongoing political intrigues and revolutions.
A nineteenth century London column reports on a man dying from a wound after a delayed medical response, a viper remedy suggestion, a coach procession to Harwich or Dover for the Continent, Smithfield livestock prices, a Newcastle laborer’s stone ailment cured, fishing-boat collisions and a sailor rescue, porpoises near London Bridge, a street robbery of eleven guineas a gold watch and a snuff-box, arrests near Tottenham Court Road, a Southwark trader’s suicide following scandal with an apprentice, and a 63 year old labourer’s wife giving birth to twins who are being nursed.
Prices of stocks and bonds listed include Bank Stock India South Sea Old S S Ann New S S Ann and various percent rates. Notes mention 3 percent red and 3 percent conf with prices around 88 to 87 3 8s, Indies Ann 3 1753 4 per cent and long annuity notes. Navy and Victualling Bills and long annuity tickets appear with scattered figures.
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