Tragic infant found with throat cut near Holbourne Bridge
An infant about two years old was found with its throat cut from ear to ear and naked at Fleet Ditch near Holbourne Bridge. Five days earlier the eldest of five children, nine years old, faced a magistrate for shoplifting and were committed to Bridewell. John Beil drowned after an accident, leaving a wife and four children. Also, JCampbell of Schawfield junior, customs commissioner, married Lady Sollan Cullingham, sister to the Earl of Sewer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fleet Ditch
Holbourd Bridge
Justice de Veil
Cat's-arle
Tyr
John Beil
Edinburgh
Keendal
Penny Bridge
County of Lancaster
James, Wilson
Timothy Cowarad
Roger Friers
Newcastle
Kirkcleatham
Chobery Tower
York
Samuel Maerwoed
Busbyhall
Bare
Nancy, Piersan
Stokesley
May 3 1935 Letter From Shreinsbury Anniversary Celebration
May 3 1935 extract describes a May Day anniversary in Shrewsbury with a civic gathering, feast, and toasts to the king and the party in power. It notes subscriptions funded the event, and lists local officials and participants. Also reports long lifespans from Penny Bridge area and brief West Yorkshire storm and local marriages and commerce snippets.
This Day Is Published adorned with Frontispiece Design
A compact eighteenth century publication note for This Day Is Published by Wirrian Somsrvite with a frontispiece design by Giavolet and engraving by Afr. Scustz. It mentions the work as utile to Romanis viris and Horace references, printed for G. Hawkins and sold by Ty Cooper at the Globe in Paternofter-Row.
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Giavolet
Afr. Scustz
Wirrian Somsrvite
Georg
P Membris
G. Hawkins
Ty Cooper
Globe
Paternofter-Row
Coalition of Patriots display Jacobites and False Friends
A pamphlet reframes coalition as a display of the union of Jacobites Republicans and false friends aiming to revise the ministry, impose upon the people, and bring in the Pretender. It claims designs threaten Britain’s establishment and adds a letter from the Pretender's Paris agent to Mr Pee, intercepted at the post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Paris
Mr. Pee
T. Cooper
Globe
Paternofter Row
Book Catalogue of Libraries for Sale Cheap in London Strand
A catalogue offers nearly ten thousand volumes from the libraries of Peter Batdeim and the Rev. Mr Brown, recently deceased, to be sold cheaply from May 8 at Olive Payne’s shop, with prices listed in shillings. Readers may obtain catalogues at several city outlets, noting the books are in good condition and many bound by famed printers.
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Peter
Batdeim
Brown
Olive Payne
Horace’s Head
Round Court
York Buildings
Strand
Ong Shillingwach
Nage
Royal Exchange
Dodd
Peacock Without Temple Bar
Dr. Clarke
Mrs Law
Ae Jackson
Rettor
Rollington
County of York
Wigston Hospital
Leicester
James
John
Paul Knapten
Crown
Ludgate-street
God
Price
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Shreinsbuury
Richard Corbet
William Kinatton
Prince and Princess of Orange
Robert Walpole
Mr. Kinaston
Lacon
South Sea
S. Sea
India
London
the Prince of Wales
Plato
T. Coover
Paternoster-Row
Othor
Telemachus
Madame de Rabutin Chantel
Marchioness de Sevigne
Offano
Mathematice
Mcmayrens
Musica
Qavigation
Sunagay, &E
Thomas Deeue
William Paavo
R. Ware
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