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SCO TLAND

... Edinburgh, Jan. 22. The Scarcity in the Weft Country is reliev'd bythe Importation ifa confiderable Quantity of Oatmeal and potatoes ; but however favourable this was to 1 of diftrefs'd Families, yet a Meal- jnonger near Irtfane, who had a great Quantity ...

Published: Tue 05 Feb 1740
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dun fuY Tout

... him up He ived many Years after in great Reputation _3»LIMf L> -kss 1 J ur IrelaLd w« heir' th* ?? hard Froft the r Crop of Potatoes, ou which the Support wl. .l VSg been ve'y w Md cold this bummer (he Corn is very thin and firL i ward that they have M ...

Published: Thu 11 Sep 1740
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

IRELAND

... Condition as in the late Froft, Oaten-meal felling for 19 and 20 d. a Stone, which in the Froft was not near fo high, and Potatoes near _ s. a Buftel.. , Yefterday waidiftributted by Madam Strothard, Lady Eiownlowe's Receiv- «r, 340 L Sterl. among her ...

Published: Thu 01 May 1740
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Extrafl ofa Letter from Cork, dated Feb. 1

... Calamity, we are an un- done Nation. ' Laft Year's Froft is felt more fevere here than in other Countries, having deftroy'd the Potatoes C which are the chief Support of our Poor) in fuch a Manner, that the fame Quan- tity we ufed to buy for Two Pence Halfpenny ...

Published: Wed 05 Mar 1740
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHORUS

... onboard, were dcar'd out, but by the Embargo are ftopp'd. Laft Wsek a Fellow went to the Grounds above New-flreet, to rob a Potatoe Garden ; in digging for them he found a Cask of Rum, which he drank of fo liberally that next Morning he was found dead pn ...

Published: Tue 08 Jan 1740
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 725 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

London, Nov. 29

... Tons of Vinegar, ft ? Service of the Fleet in the Weft Indies For his Majefty 's Ships in thofe PamliW fome hundred Tons of Potatoes have be bought up. en Wednelday Morning about Three o'ClocV a dieadful Fire broke out at the Sign of th Colliflower in K ...

Published: Thu 04 Dec 1740
Newspaper: Derby Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1269 | Page: 2 | Tags: none