Proclamation Encourages Seamen to Join Royal Navy
King issues royal bounty for seamen who voluntarily enter service before October 21, 1770. Able seamen eligible for 30 shillings, ordinary seamen 20 shillings, paid after the third muster. Penalizes absentees who switch ships to claim bounty. Proclamation dated September 22, 1770, at St James's. Further order prorogues Parliament to November 13. Also notes coronation anniversary celebrations and market prices for hops and cheese.
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Privy Council
Royal Navy
St. James’s
Dublin letter reveals bribery schemes in government appointments
An Irish letter from Dublin dated September 120 attacks government corruption. It recounts Neville Jones, MP for Wexford, resisting bribe offers to join the Court and accept a paid post. It notes six new Commissioners of Accounts at 750 pounds for the first and 500 pounds for the others, contrasted with a clerk earning 200 pounds annually.
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Trelan
Dublin
Neville Jones
Wexford
Jones
Execution of Robert Haslett for mail robbery near Durham
From Newcastle Sept 19: Robert Haslett was executed near Durham for robbing the mail on Sept 6. After hanging for about two and a half hours his body was taken to a gibbet three miles from the town and hung in chains. He showed penitence, avowing no confederates and claiming the accusation aimed to delay his trial. He cried during the journey to the gibbet.
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Darifer
Medak Walket UK
Bath
Avon-street
Wilfel
Charles Shepherd
Ivelchester
Chelmsford
Suffolk
Norfolk
London
Newcastle
Robert Haslett
Durham
Durham Road
Prince of Wales
Queen’s Palace
Duchess of Northumberland
Oo Mills Vernon
Earl of Hertford
Richmond
Wragley-hall
Warwickshire
Lord Camden
North
Spain
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Falkland’s
Naval preparations and court news from Paris and London
Letters from Paris report naval preparations in royal docks with squadrons at Brest and Toulon and vast stores bought from Holland. London items note court crowds for coronation anniversary, promotions, and political shifts. Reports also cover press warrants, Royal Navy mobilization, and robberies and crimes in London during the week.
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LON DD O
Paris
Royal
Intendant of Marine
Brest
Toulon
Holland
Petersburgh
Sardinia
Republic of
Genoa
Porto
France
Builder and tailors named in October certificates
Fragmentary OCR notes list names Harty, attornies hill, London, a draper Robert Ha Nlary le Be, builder, and James Fell of St. Bride's London with certificates granted on October 6 and October 12 respectively.
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Harty
Attornies Hill
London
Draper
Robert
Fex
O&tober
James
Fell
St. Bride’s
Taylor
O&ober
Curious compound promises hair restoration for women and children
An advertisement, likely from the 18th or 19th century, touts a hair treatment by TRS Gibson that claims to remove unwanted hair from eyebrows, cheeks, chin, and lips while offering a liquid that allegedly changes grey hair to brown. It emphasizes safety for infants and ships samples and full directions from a Hatton Garden area seller in London.
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Gibson
Lower-Cros-Street
Hatton-Garden
Bourn
England
Scotland
Ireland
Holland
France
Cole
Remarkable cure claim for scurvy tincture in 1770 letter
A letter to Dr Ryseeeg describes a family of six afflicted with inveterate scurvy cured by his tincture. The James Mamy family, once blotched and boils covered, testifies to the salubrious effects and asks public notice. The document notes a price of 6d per bottle and references July 16, 1770.
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Maby
James Marny
John
Botile
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Great Britain
Channel
West
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Russia
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Society of the Bill of Rights
Gibraltar
Minorca
House of Bourbon
Wilts
Thomas Goddard
Sheffield
Mr. Waller
King’s College, Cambridge
Kensington
Jortin
Hamilton
Benet College
Goddard
Clare Hall
Cathedral of
St. Paul
Devonshire
Clifford Street
Ashley
Budgate- Hill
Dr. Rock
Bell- Savage-yard
Newington- Butts
Oxford Road
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