Court confronts sermon on rights and habeas corpus in London
The Court of Common Council debated a sermon by Rev George Fearne Bates preached before judges and the Lord Mayor. A motion praised the sermon faced counterpoints alleging it urged non-resistance and endangered rights, with amendments condemning pulpit political denunciation being rejected.
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Christopher Smith
ST. Paul's
Bums Teap
George Fearne Bates
St. Paul's Cathedral
WartuMan
Mr. W
Bates
Corporation of the City of London
Corporation
Lord Somers
London
Waithman
House of Brunswick
Williams
Dixon
Hanvey
Grreritas
Mr. Davis
Gentleman
Dissenting Magistrate Attacks Reading Bridewell Resolutions
Joan Weyland, a Berks magistrate, denounces a Reading Quarter Sessions vote suspending Keeper of Reading Bridewell. She cites a minority of thirteen and demands printed dissent, opposing using punitive resolutions before a formal trial. The extract lists magistrates who opposed the action and supports fair legal process.
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Hawthorn Hill
Berks
King’s County
Joan WeyLand
Eastaff
Reading Bridewell
N. Dukinfield
Charles Saxton
Morris Ximenes
Edward Barry
Vansittart
Arthur Vansittart
Edward Golding
Lottery Appeal to Dividend Recipients
The passage urges recipients of bank dividends to invest a portion in a forthcoming lottery starting on the 7th of next month. It promises at least six prizes of 20,000 and notes the lottery has the Public's approval. It highlights 2,884 more prizes than blanks, a favorable odds detail for adventurers.
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Monts
North
Sunderland
Northumberland
G. Carrot
Cornhill
Oxford Street
Monta
City of London pewter pots dispute ends with destruction ruled illegal
Guildhall officials and the Inquest examined the City of London pewter pot measure against the Westminster standard. The Lord Mayor declared the destruction of the pots unlawful and ordered compensation for the publican’s loss. The inquiry urged bringing pots to Guildhall for proper verification and avoided sealing pots by Westminster methods. Meanwhile Aston Havyu reports distress as a poor lodger rots ill, and a magistrate orders the Borough overseers to admit Rosetta Lockley to the workhouse.
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City of London
Akhurst
Temple
Court of Exchequer
City of London Guildhall
Westminster Guildhall
Pallet
Leadenhall-street
Guildhall
Westminster
Mayon
London
Aston Havyu
Evance
George-yard
Kent-street
Arfever
Beadle
Rosetta Lockley
Inquest Held Over ElevenYearOld Chimney Sweep Dowland
An inquest at Lord Somers Arms Somers Town investigated the death of Robert Dowland eleven an apprentice to Hall a nightman and chimney sweep of St Pancras suffocated in a chimney flue. Mrs Ann Bishop wife of baker Alexander Bishop of Union Street testified he daily bought rolls at her shop. The inquiry occurred Wednesday morning and concerned the boy's demise.
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Lord
Alexander Bishop
Union Street
Somers
Tragic Oven Sweep Death Shows Master’s Neglect
Witnesses recount a boy swept up a flue in a bakery oven. He cried in the chimney and suffocated after hours of delay and neglect by his master. A surgeon arrived too late as the boy lay in the flue near the oven mouth.
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Witnes
Wang
Chidney
Bobby
Thomas Smith
Water-Street
St. Pancras
Births and Marriages and Deaths from London area notices
Birth notices report a son for Lady Henry Jeffreys at Clarges Street and a son for Dr E N Bancroft in Alfred Place, plus a daughter for Lady Hartwell in Lattham and a son for the Rev Dr Chatfield at Chatteris. A marriage occurs at Arundel between James Hopkins and Anne Holmes. A death notes the sudden passing of Joseph Caff at his Great Pulteney Street home aged 64. Bank stock listings follow.
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Clarges- Street
Henry Jeffreys
Alfred-place
E. N. Bancroft
Jamaica
Lattham
Middlesex
Francis Hartwell
Chatteris
Cambridgeshire
Chatfield
Arundel
James Hopkins
Worthing
That Place
Anne
John Holmes
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Court OF Common Council
George Vansittart
John Weyland
Eee Palmer
E. Liebenrood
Lone Anstalek
John Wells
Police
Great Pulteneyster Bath
Joseph Caff
India
Losdon
B. M.swyny
Strand
J. P. Wanless
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