Trial of a Libel pamphlet at Newgate Street shop
The court heard testimony on a controversial pamphlet published by Eaton with alleged authorship disputes. Witnesses claimed copies were sold from Eaton's house, while Mr Claud argued the work was contemptible. The Lord Chancellor condemned the Star Chamber precedent and urged juries to judge the libel’s minsters of religion. The jury found Jeph Burks guilty of publishing.
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Halsh
Panter
Newgate-street
Vaughan
Aliff
Eaton
M‘claud
City Road
Inns of Court
Crown
Claud
Lord Kenver
Robert Sawyer
Thomas Pemberton
Somers
Seven Bishops
Times
Star-Chamber
Noluaus Leges- Anglie -Muiari
Shorror
Guily
Jeph Burks
Suuttreet
Bishopgate Street
Jurors Fines Remitted After Notable Sittings
Kenyon noted earlier fore occurrences required fines for jurors but, owing to exemplary attendance, he remitted all fines. Thus concluded the sittings, with the lordship expressing satisfaction at jurors' conduct and his duty fulfilled.
Haymarket Theatre Veers Through Light Entertainments and News
The Haymarket crowd enjoyed Tit for Tat and The Village Lawyer with Mrs Gipas and Young Philpot praised for comic turns. Beside theater notes, the paper reports on Duchess of Devonshire’s Chiswick breakfast, debates over a garbled high life pamphlet, and commentary on Princess of Warss and the Countess of Jersey amid wartime upheavals and political satire.
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Phil‘pot
Scout
Gipas
Maria
Cv Reusre
Duchess of Devonshire
Chiswick
Faust
Princess of
JeanineHam
Countess of
Jersey
Southampton
West Indies
Eulegim
House of Lords
Earl of Lauperpate
House of Peer
Dusseldorf
JouRpan
Rimée
Kyser
Lahn
Holland
Belgium
Directory
France
Honiano
Buonaparte
Rome
Shylock
Garrat
Mrr. S
Drury-lane
Appleby
Weston
Roberts
Brighton Society Gathers For Royal Visit And Local Theatre
In Brighton the season brings a surge of fashionables including the Duke and Duchess of Marmportouch and the Earl of Ussarpee. The Royal party plans a theatre outing as the Pavilion prepares for their reception while regiments encamp nearby and a troop review is anticipated. the new theatre, led by Diddear and Knight, promises entertainment with Every One has his Fault and Roma.
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East India House
China
Rover
Royal Char Fotte
Drummond
Glatter
Bown
Royal Admiral
East India
Sydney Smith
M. Nettman
M. Cuarretier
Paris
Sydney Sttu
Mediterranean
Hyper Parker
Princess of
Walles
Passare
Rhine
Strasburgh
Jourdan
Eber
Lower Rhine
Archduke Duarves
Upper’ Rhine
Lahn
Sieg
Prince of Connz
Buonaparte
Milan
Pavia
Novi
Anercromey
Gaddaloupe
Lord Sempn
Lord Laupervae
Earl of
Sin Fo
Brissot
Maritox Ducu
Biernheim
East Kent
West Essex
Bedford
East York
King’s Dragoons
Preston
Diddear
Knight
Roma
Hottanp
Richards
Shipping News From Plymouth and Portsmouth July 4 5
This morning the Martin flot of wars Captain Sutton arrived after ten weeks from Prince's Island near Africa. It brought money for merchants and dispatches for Government. The Melpomene and Asia ships arrived with funds and passengers for the British dockyard victualling office and Bermuda. The Dutch frigate Jason entered Hamoaze. Portsmouth reports the Man of War cut asunder for lengthening while the Empress of Russia from Riga arrived.
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Plymouth
Martin
Sutton
Prince’s Island
Africa
St. Thomas’s
Bannerman
Melpomene
Sir C. Hamilton
Portsmouth
Dockyard and Victualling-office
Hamoaze
Asia
Murray
Bermuda
Jason
Prince Man of War
Empress of Russia
Riga
Robbery at Chelsea Magistrates Court Case of Thomas Flaxman
Mary Taylor testified at Bow Street against Thomas Flaxman for stealing clothing and 12 guineas from her near York Hospital Chelsea. She described a pistol gesture and threats, the robbery including a damaged iron tool and a bundle of items. Flaxman denied nothing, was identified by the Prosecution, and committed for further action.
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R. Ford
Thomas Flaxman
Mary Taylor
York Hospital
Chelsea
Knightsbridge
Drainie Parish Chronicle of 1040 Inhabitants in Elgin
The parish of Drainie in Elgin county on the Scottish coast lists 1040 residents and a sea port. It notes no suicides in thirty two years under the minister, and no natives hanged or banished, with the Established Church as the sole denomination.
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Drainie
County of Elgin
Scotland
Ministar
Mesmory of
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Windsor
Hanover
St. James’s
Mr. Extor
Berlin
Earl of Wizrskies
Marquis of
Winchester
Duarves Watsa
Col Ditton
Forses
St. Domingo
Lane
St. Lucia
Hirx
C. Morcan
Haymarket Theatre
Brighton
Ship News
Bow-Street
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