Fires, legal notices, and ship prizes flood Romney page
The piece reports a barn and haystacks burned by lightning near Romney, women detained for selling fruit during services and discharged, plus diverse local incidents. It lists marriages, deaths, robberies, a fatal fall from a window, a boy killed by a waggon, and injuries from a fall. It details Atlantic prize news, races at Salisoury, militia arrivals, coroner’s inquests, and privateers.
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Romney
Ludgate-hill
Covent Garden
Fleet
Newgate
Spitalfields
Michell
St. James’s Church
Dyson
Bodker
Holloway
Great Tower-street
Willis
Essex-street
Lincoln’s-Inn- Fields
Navy Office Notice on August 1759 Bills Payment
Navy Office dated July 12 1760 announces money and Exchequer Bills are in the hands of the Navy Treasurer to pay all bills registered in August 1759. Proprie tors or Jack Pecsons empowered to receive the funds must present them at the office to be raised accordingly.
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Navy Office
His Majesty’s Navy
Francis Rush-Clark
Garraway
Exchange-Alley
Cornhill
Great Britain
Ireland
Navy Office Notice of Sale at Portmouth Yard 1760
The Navy Office announces an 18 July sale at the Pay Office in Portsmouth of old stores including canvas, rope, oakum and other materials. A 25 percent deposit is required, with payment and removal due within forty days. noncompliance forfeits the deposit to the Crown. Also notices re Victualling bills August 1759 and tenders for prisoner of war provisions at Winchester, with details pending.
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Navy-Office
His Majesty’s Navy
Hughes
His Majesty’s
Portmouth
Subscriptions Opened for Widows Society Plan
The Society for the Benefit of Widows reports a committee meeting at St Pauls Coffee House on the 11th instant resolves subscriptions are open until September 11. Proposals available free at St Pauls Coffee House Sard Street, Storey’s Gate Coffee House, and Essex Coffee House in Whitechapel.
Boston Fire Sufferers Subscriptions Update
A July 11 1760 notice reports subscriptions for those affected by the late Boston New England fire, with a list of contributions received as noted in advertisements dated the 26th last month.
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Boston
New-England
London Booksellers urge cheaper binding in boards
London announces from July 26 price hike on bound books in duodecimo and octavo formats. Readers urged to sew books in boards now to keep post-bound value, with sewing and binding cheaper than current leather binding, preserving print clarity and sheet alignment. Aimed at conserving books for repeated reading.
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London
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Cape
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Hispaniola
Crooked Island
Salisoury
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Bosphorus
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Mr. Duggin
Mr. Elliot
Mr. Churchill
Lord Craven
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Mr. Alexander
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Oxford
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Anne Parker
Thomas Morse
William Steptoe
Sarah King
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Norwich
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Royal Burghs
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Hugh Forbes
Aberdeen
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MacGregor
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Felton
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William Coventry
Margaret
Peterhead
Invernes
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Johnson
Inverkeithing
Alexander Thomson
Matter
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Dundee
Holmes
Regiment of Foot
Dublin
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Corke
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Galway
William Cuthbert
Roscommon
Peter Forster
Royal I1th Dragoons
James Conn
Killcrest
Clarke
Switzerland
Royal Exchange
Batavia
W. Clarke & Takes
Gazette
Canton of
Bern
Authoracy
King’s House
Winchester
Aire
Arake
Ater
Duthy
Pri ‘ Winchater
Magdalen House
Prescot-Street
Goodman’s Fields
A. Winterbottom
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Harison
Barke
John Wyrrelt
John Staples
Baxter API
William Weeley
Foster Ani Greame
Neo
Thomas Cooke
Joshua Shaw
John Henniker
Elqar
Shaw
Bridge and Barton
Harrison and Wilson
John Kirkata Ani Cy
Low
Griffin Ani
Joshua Harrop
Mei. Honeywood and Co
Birchin-lane
Ftrs
Walpole and Co
Lombard-street
James Coutts
Strand
Trs
Drummond and Co
Charing-Cross
Whch
John Hutchinson
Lloyd's
Lombard’s Street
William and Ann
George Wilson
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