Long Essex Embankment Transforms Coastline and Farmland
A mile and a half embankment on the Essex coast near Tillingham, benefiting St. Pauls Dean and Chapter estates, rises seven feet high and 32 feet base, enclosing about 100 acres of rich soil. Dykes divide the land, now prepared for ploughing, under lease to Rev. B. Dudley who previously won a gold medal for a similar project.
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Essex
St. Paul's
Tillingham
B. Dudley
Arts and Sciences
Bradwell Rectory
Tax office letters prompt Tooke to justify income
In 1799 the Income Tax Commissioners demand J H Tooke explain a declaration claiming income above sixty pounds a year. Tooke resists, arguing Parliament empowers inquiry by oath, denouncing the process as degrading yet pledging to comply. The correspondence reflects early tax scrutiny and disputes over privacy.
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Fohn Horne Tooke
A&t
Srr
Wandsworth
Tam
W.B. Luttly
J. H. Tooke
Breach of Privilege Hearing in Parliament Debated
Lord Grenville moved to clear the bar over a breach of privilege case tied to a Cambridge Entligencer libel about the Bishop of Landaff. Printer Benjamin Flower faced a bill of 100 pounds and six months Newgate confinement with postrelease imprisonment until fines paid. debates featured Lord Holland and Lord Kenyda on privilege limits.
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Lord Grenville
Fridway
Benjamin Flower
Cambridge Intelligencer
Landaff
House of Lords
Ireland
Lord Gresville
Flower
Newgate
Lord Holland
Lord Kenyda
King’s Bench
Pynith
House of Commons Debates on Warehousing and Tax Bills
The House of Commons discussed warehousing East India goods and a three million loan to raise supply. The Scotch Land Tax Redemptions Bill and various measures on bad debts, habeas corpus, elections, and bail were debated or ordered to committee, with adjournment set for Friday.
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Bolton
Manchester
Glasgow
Ways and Means
B.ls
H. Mildmay
Simeon
Lords
Select Committee
Belgrave
Motion to confine Benjamin Flower in Newgate for six months
The record notes a motion carried to convey Benjamin Flower's body to Newgate for six months' custody until a £100 fine is paid. Adjourned. May 6. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Edward and Prince Ernest seated as Duke of Kent and Duke of Cumberland.
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Benjamin Flower
Newgate
Monnpay
Prince Edward
Prince Ernest
Duke of Kent
Duke of Cumberland
Scottish Bail Law Debate Over Double Penalty Bill
A heated session discusses a bill to raise bail to double the present sum with a discretionary power for magistrates to increase it further on Lord Advocate request to keep suspects from fleeing Scotland. Tierney criticizes it as England overreach harming Scottish rights, while the Lord Advocate and others defend needed security measures and insist magistrates retain or reject discretion.
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Thames
Gravesend
Burdon
England
W. Dundas
Great Britain
Scotland
Lord ‘Hawksbury
Supreme Court of Jusiciary
Lord Advocate
Tierney
Pitt
Palmer
Botany Bay
Gentiensani
Archibald Gray
Archinald Gray
Bjord
Muir
Vry
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Mr. W.B. Luttly
British Parliament
House OF Commons
Weapres Bay
Monxpay
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