Cooke's Pocket Library epistles and British classics edition
An advertisement outlines Cooke's Select British Classics and Goldsmiths Essays editions with luxurious engravings, portaits, and superior printing. It details publication dates, prices, and the appeal to fashionable readers, plus notes on the Idler and other works in the series.
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Cooke
Oldsmith
Goldsmirh
Samuel Johnson
Goldsmith
Idler
Rambler
Adventurer
Guardian
Spectator
Tatler
Connoisseur
World, &. &c
C. Cooke
Great Pritein
Ireland
Ward's
Holborn
Gray's Inn
London
Baxter
Edinburch
Crurwell
Bath
Collins
Salisbury
Trueman
Exeter
Richards
Plynouth
Cowflade
Smart
Reading
Blakeney
Windsor
Drury
Derby
Burbage
Nottingham
Newcorsb
Stamford
Claesar
Chelmsford
Forsher
Ipswich
Gies
Bury
Marthell
Lynn
Stevenson
Norwich
Bristol Coach Accident and Leadenhall Knife Incident
A Bristol coach in Reading suffered a numbed driver incident as the box was shed and horses galloped to Hare Hatch before stopping without injury to passengers. Separately a butcher’s boy in Leadenhall Market stabbed a poulterer, striking his bowels in a fatal seeming act.
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Bristol
Reading
Hare Hatch
Leadenhall Market
Old Bailey Trials Report On Harsh Sentences For Convicts
The Old Bailey reports detail sentences given to several prisoners convicted after trials. Defendants including George Hardy William Wallace Pee HEE Blake alias Blakeley and Mary Garshart faced death or transportation for theft forgery and burglary. Others such as Thomas Sith numerous named individuals and Mary Simpsin received terms of hard labour or imprisonment in Newgate and the House of Correction for conspiracy theft and related offenses.
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Haines
Goring
George Hardy
Wiliam’ Wallace
Pee Hee Blake
Blakeley
Corinth
River Thames
Smith
House of Correction
Wm. Kinchfeld
Farvit Thompson
Newgate
Corregion
Sessions House Trial in Clerkenwell Over Rape Attempt
Patrick M Carshy faced trial at Sessions House Clerkenwell on a charge of attempting to rape Catherine Sullivan, a child under nine. The infant testified under oath, describing ill treatment by the prisoner, whose Irish background was noted. A witness’ testimony corroborated the child’s account, and the jury found guilt. The court sentenced the prisoner to one year’s imprisonment.
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Elizabeth
Rotterdam
Hull
Serjeant le Blanc
Holland
England
Court of Common Pleas
Potts
Riad
Pref
London
Hamburgh
Serjeant Shepherd
Helland
Britain
Lords of Appeal
Cockpit
Court of Admiralty
Privy Council
House of Lords
Justice Butusa
Aberty
Justice Butler
Great Britain
Common Pleas
Court of Prizes
Santery
Court of Appeal
Malaga
Spain
Administration of Justice
Mansfield
Patrick M.carshy
Gittment
Catherine Sullivan
Afurgech
Adulteration of Milk Exposed in Agricultural Survey
A Middleton survey on Muld esex milk details consumer prices, retailer profits, and extensive adulteration methods. It notes three pence halfpenny per quart paid by consumers, misleading short measure and added extraneous ingredients yielding high profit, and pumps used to mix water in milk.
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Middleton
Muld
Fim
London
Surrey
Also Mentioned on This Page
LAW Report
Guildhall
Justice Buller
BFLL
Old Bailey
Sessions House
Clerkenwell
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