Racy Letter on St James Fair and Urban Amenities
A correspondent argues that post plague burial grounds turned fairground sites prove beneficial, detailing how open grounds, improvised stalls, and Booths lure crowds. He mocks fears of fairs promoting vice and lauds playful exhibits, equestrian training for youths, and stage interludes by St James's residents, noting a curious inscription last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James
Uch
Madrid
Scotland
St. James’s Fair
Cheltenham
Paul Jones
Puppet shows and devilskin satire at the annual jubilee
In a lively letter Mr Crier extols the local festival with puppet shows opposite the parish church. He mocks the Devil as comic theatre and warns against infidelity, praising the event as a nursery of virtue and a relief from dour doctrine, signed by Mr Crier’s very humble servant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. George’s Fields
Dewil
Croney
Punch
Mr. Crier
Old Bailey Execution and Covent Garden Murder Trial
Old Bailey reports recount the execution of James Coogan for forging a will aboard the Vigilant and details of the Wilkins murder trial of Thomas Noel near Covent Garden hustings. Prosecution by Mr Fielding emphasizes impartial justice amid political tensions as witness James Dawson testifies about riotous behavior and the fatal blows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Coogan
James Gibson
Pierrepoint
Waddington
Old Bailey
William Wilkins
Thomas Noel
Covent Garden
Mr. Fielding
Westminster
Blackstone
James Dawson
Whitechapel
John Townshend
Noel
Wilkins
Witnesses Testify In Murder Case And Devonshire Theft
The second witness Willan corroborates key timing details of Noel's death after the arrest, while Hewson describes the first notice of the death. Jurors deem the murder case unwinnable with prior testimony, and Noel is found not guilty. Separately, Rosery at Devonshire House is tried for theft from the Duke of Devonshire. The prisoner confesses, is weighed by Bow Street officers, and despite strong character testimony, is found guilty of larceny with clemency considered due to remorse and confession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willan
Stolan
Woolf
Wilkins
Flick
Bow-street
Hewson
James-street
Covent Garden
Noel
Hick’s Hall
Gould
Rosery
Devonshire House
W. Mason
Duke of Devonshire
M’manus
Bowstreet
Shug Lane
Lort
Fielding
Infant found dead in Shade Hill Pits in Manchester
The body of a newborn female infant was recovered suffocated and drowned in Shade Hill Pits. Wrapped in a pocket, police fear murder but coroner’s inquest found no marks of violence due to the body’s state of putrefaction. Further inquiry is planned to identify the person who discarded the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Shade Hill
Howard's New Royal Cyclopaedia advertisement notice
An 1788 prospectus for Howard's New Royal Cyclopedia or Modern Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. George Selby Howard and partners advertise weekly demy folio numbers, frontispieces, copper plates, and a 150-number plan, with appeals to public confidence and critiques of prior cyclopedias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Chamber
S’s Cyclopedia
Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Abraham Rees
Stothard
Hearn
London
T. Loncman
Paternoster-Row
Cuamsess
Edmund Fry and Co
Prince of
George Selby Howard, Esq
F.R. 5S
Howard
Royal Cyclopedia
Cyclopedia
Scotland
Europe
George Selby Howard
Upper Seymour-street
Portman-Square
É&C
Ind
St. James's
William Henry Hall
C. Cooke
Paternoster Row
S. Sejlick
Bookfetler
Bristol
Great Britain
Royal Encyclopedia
Millman Place
Bedford Row
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Mr. Crier, Sin
Tueday
OLD Bailey Intelligence
Country News
Number. I. of
Royal Cyclopadia
Upper Seymour Street
Portman Square
Dour Bertelworth
Naval Academy
Chelsea
Henry Boswell
F.R.A.S
Felix Stonehouse
D. D
Windor
Alex. Hogg
King Armyho
NEW Royal Encyclopadia
James
Francis Newsery
St. Paul’s
Cheapside
Dr. James
J. Rudhall & Co
F. Brown
E. Shierchid
W. Bulgin
J. Norton
E. Palmer
William Browne
J.lloyd
Wells and Arthur
William Pine
J. Fitchen
T. Mills
S. Bonner
M. Thompson
Mr. Newbery
F. Newbery
Tayler
Warwick Square
Peel’s
Guildhall
Cruttwett
Hoorza
Keents
Bath
Collins
Salisbury
Burrouen
Devizes
Davis
Trowbridge
Stuart
Bradford
Crocker
Frome
Raings
Glocester
Tymas
Worcester
Pearson
Rotvason
Swinney
Birmingham
Miss Pucs
Hereford
Fretcher
Chester
Bictince
Liverpool
Trewman
Exeter
Mellrs. Goansy
Haverfordwest
Willmor
Pembroke
Roserts
Narberth
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