Prize and prizes offered by academies and courts
Notices from 1761 recount prizes for Latin French or German memoirs to be sent to Mr Secretary Formey with a motto in a sealed billet by January 1763, Lyons academy offers silk washing invention prize, Rome Mount of Piety officials condemned for embezzlement, Prussian officer reports Colberg siege ended, robbery reports between Copenhagen and Stockholm, papal cardinal hat disposal, treaty plan between Russia and Britain, various ship arrivals and losses, trade duties changes, and appointments in royal households and offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Formey
Academy
Academy of Arts and Sciences
Lyons
Civita Vecchia
Rome
Binni
Ferretti
Colberg
Prince de Wortemberg
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Keith
Great Britain
London daily notices report crimes and marriages in bustling edition
In Essex a thirteen year old boy shoots at a girl and kills her. In Whitechapel a young woman is robbed and badly hurt before bystanders help. Several marriages are noted including Claudius Amyand to the Countess Dowager of Northampton and others in London. Obituaries and errata close the item as a general late edition record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Sampford
Esex
New Road
Whitechapel
Pers-Pany
Red Lyon
Whitechapel Road
Thursday
Claudius Amyand
Northampton
Yast
Wm. Hubbard
Wapping-Dock
Kent
Winning
E Q
Royal Navy
Commission of the Peace
Kent and
Lurry
Navy Office Notice on Stores Contracts for December
Navy Office announces on 17 November 1761 that Commissioner Hughes will be ready at Ports mouth to treat with suppliers for His Majesty's Stores. Contracts include tallow candles from December 1 and ballast buckets in early December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Office
Ais Majesty’s Navy
Tauche
Hughes
Portsmouth
Mayetys
Notice from Navy Office trades and fishery society
Navy Office announces vacancies for Surgeons mates and tests for qualification. Fishery Office reports a General Court of the Society of the British Fishery at Royal Exchange on December 1 to elect Governor President Vice-President and a Council of thirty members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Exchange
Creditors of John Andrews to Meet in London Street
The creditors of John Andrews, a merchant of Fen church street London, are desired to meet at eleven o'clock in the forenoon on a day fixed at Mr Joseph Partridge's Packer in Fen Church street to discuss special affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Andrews
Fenchurch-treet
London
Joseph Partridge
Packer
Fen‘Church-street
Notice to creditors of Francis Goelét in New Jersey 1761
In May 1761 the Province of New Jersey issues notice that Francis Goelét late of New York now in New Jersey has placed all estate in trust for his creditors. His body is exempt from arrest for past debts. After May 1 1762 creditors in person or by agents may seek distribution of goods and effects, with sixty days notice published in New York and Pennsylvania Gazettes detailing sale time and place. James Neilson William Bryant Andrew Smyth sign the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Province of
New Jersey
Francis Goelet
New York
Francis Goelét
Creitorsj
Francis Geelec
Parcs
Penylvania
Francis Goetet
Statutes at Large in Cave Volumes debated
A contemporary notice disputes authenticity of Cambridge edition versus the Cambridge editor and King's Printer claims a monopoly aims to suppress portable editions. It urges subscribers to obtain a complete edition at an affordable rate via C Bathurst Bookseller Cross Keys Fleet Street, offering Six Pounds per copy in sheets, cheaper than the last edition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
C. Bathurst
Cross Keys
St. Dunstan’s Church
Fleet Street
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Weymouth
Deptford
Swyman
Wolfe
Dover
Jamaica
Prince Ferdinand of
Colvill
Meany
Cork
Halifax
Hopewell
Muckett
Narva
Pile de Fundry
Lancaster
Dolphin
Spence
Lewis
Dantzick
Nicholas Treunis
Texel
Catherine
Elizabeth
Hull
Christopher Chapman
Riga
North Berwick
Bacadale
Isle of Sky
Earl of Egremont
Kingfleet
St. James’s
King’s Bench
Westminster
Earl of
George Cavendith
Duke of Devonshire
John Catherwood
Scarborough Castle
Yorkshire
Wiliam Alcock
Ordnance
William Hobbs
Fe the Daily Registers of Commerce and Intelligence
Thomas Cautley
Amherst
44Th
America
Col Clive
Ireland
Baron of
Piairy
ATOGC
Atesm. Saglr
FRISS
Isgyt
Thurday
Howie
Queen-street
Weiliinster
Stone
Ptentiul Idftuar
Chillchurt
Migs
Tay
Parflw
Gibraltar
Cherry-Garden
Rotherhithe
John Mayauit
Surveycor
France
Acterbury
Rochester
Joseph Walton
Windsor
George
John Dean
Mid Bank
Yeterday
Spain
Europe
James Ashley
Ludgate
Vendon
Arfton Parc
Jeller
Gillon
N. B. Akreac
Orange Shrub
Francia Vernon
London Hospital
W. Trotter
James Neilson
William Bryant
Andrew Smyth
Royal-Exchange
Chadwell Collee-House
Edgeadneedle- Street
Matthew Dike
Church Hole
York
Rayéhe
Bermudas
John Stiles
Weibth-street
Cavendith-square
Darke
Prospect-ron
Globe Tavern
Alto
N. B
Robert Chadwick
London Bridge
Guildhall
South West End
Peper Roberits
Cormmattis
Guildhall Yard
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