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General Evening Post

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Feb 01, 1774

Page

2

Fragmented French tribute text fragment

A short poetic fragment praises a beloved name as glorious and present in many hearts and places. It notes the name appears everywhere except in the speaker’s own valley, hinting at longing and reverence without specific events or context.

Entertaining letter on Richard III burial and travels in Scotland

The piece recounts a September 1733 letter detailing an Eastwell house parish register entry about Richard III’s burial, plus a tale of a bricklayer raised from humble origins by a secret benefactor. It then reviews travels of Mr Johnson through Scotland visiting Highlands towns, St Andrews, Hawthornden, and Flora Macdonald, noting impressions and local figures including the Laird of M’Leod and Miss Flora Macdonald.

St. Andrew’s John Knox Johnson Hawthornden Ben Johnson Drummond Flora Macdonald Macdonald Kingsburgh Offian Haac Taylor Lord le D Carteret the Observer Dick Wildfire Characer Cobler A. Hamilton St. John’s Gate G. Robinson Paternotter-row Town and Country Dnr

Reluctant Linguist Serves Kitchen Duty in C17th Tale

In a Desperata Curiosa excerpt, an old scholar prefers reading over company and asks Sir Thomas for a single room to live and work quietly. Sir Thomas grants a kitchen run for life. the scholar builds a one room house and remains there until his death. Remark notes Richard Plantagenet’s age at Bosworth and his witnessing five decades of rival monarchs.

Thomas Richard Plantagenet Bosworth

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