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Newspaper
Daily Courant
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 27, 1735
Page
2
A correspondent challenges the addressee about alleged services for the Pretender and Chevalier, questioning fear of King George's ministers. The writer taunts the target to reveal any real services and condemns insinuations as malicious, calling out the insinuations as a mean trick.
Reports from London describe Captain Lewis of the Newcastle dying at his Uncle’s House in Clutched Friars after a voyage from East India. A boy in Shoreditch was fatally injured by a fall from a horse. Admiralty dispatched orders to Sir John Norris from the Admiralty at Portsmouth. A late Thursday assembly in Edisburgh discussed patronage and new ministerial applications, appointing committees and arranging preaching at Carriden and Linlithgow. The Assembly plans three commissioners to London with instructions to confer with nobility and maintain correspondence, following favorable reports from London.
Friday and Saturday proceedings show the Assembly considering reviving the A& 1708 fund for ministers widows and orphans, debating Mr James Campbell of Ailbrandon, and reviewing the Purcell settlement dispute in Dumfries. Commissioners were chosen to represent orders, and Mackenzie’s parish settlement faced scrutiny amid concerns of Popery and church discipline.
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